America's Women - Gail Collins

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America's Women tells the story of more than four centuries of history. It features a stunning array of personalities, from the women peering worriedly over the side of the Mayflower to feminists having a grand old time protesting beauty pageants and bridal fairs. Courageous, silly, funny, and heartbreaking, these women shaped the nation and our vision of what it means to be female in America.By culling the most fascinating characters -- the average as well as the celebrated -- Gail Collins, the editorial page editor at the New York Times, charts a journey that shows how women lived, what they cared about, and how they felt about marriage, sex, and work. She begins with the lost colony of Roanoke and the early southern ",tobacco brides", who came looking for a husband and sometimes -- thanks to the stupendously high mortality rate -- wound up marrying their way through three or four. Spanning wars, the pioneering days, the fight for suffrage, the Depression, the era of Rosie the Riveter, the civil rights movement, and the feminist rebellion of the 1970s, America's Women describes the way women's lives were altered by dress fashions, medical advances, rules of hygiene, social theories about sex and courtship, and the ever-changing attitudes toward education, work, and politics. While keeping her eye on the big picture, Collins still notes that corsets and uncomfortable shoes mattered a lot, too.",The history of American women is about the fight for freedom,", Collins writes in her introduction, ",but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's roles that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.",Told chronologically through the compelling stories of individual lives that, linked together, provide a complete picture of the American woman's experience, America's Women is both a great read and a landmark work of history.

Spanning four centuries of history, America's Women describes the way women's lives have been altered by medical advances, social theories about sex and courtship, and ever-changing attitudes toward education, work, and politics. Gail Collins, the editorial page editor at the New York Times, chronicles not only the lives of the famous, but also those of everyday women - their families, careers and personal choices.

From contraception to corsets, and from equal rights to the tyranny of fashion, Collins relates the compelling, heartbreaking, funny and inspirational history of women as they made lives for themselves and their families in a new world.

Gail Collins is the Editor of the Editorial Page at the New York Times - the first woman to hold this position. Before that, she wrote the "Public Interest" column for paper's Op-Ed page, was a member of the editorial board, and was a columnist for The New York Daily News and New York Newsday. She is the author of Scorpion Tongues: Gossip, Celebrity and American Politics.

"Gail Collins's book is the best survey of American women's history we have. It is a rich and absorbing story, carried along by humor, deep feeling, and superb historical intelligence." - Christine Stansell, professor of history, Princeton University, and author of American Moderns

Autorentext

Gail Collins, a columnist for the New York Times, was the the first woman ever to serve as editorial page editor for the paper. Previously, she was a member of the Times editorial board, and a columnist for the New York Daily News and New York Newsday.

Klappentext

Rich in detail, filled with fascinating characters, and panoramic in its sweep, this magnificent, comprehensive work tells for the first time the complete story of the American woman from the Pilgrims to the 21st-century

In this sweeping cultural history, Gail Collins explores the transformations, victories, and tragedies of women in America over the past 300 years. As she traces the role of females from their arrival on the Mayflower through the 19th century to the feminist movement of the 1970s and today, she demonstrates a boomerang pattern of participation and retreat.

In some periods, women were expected to work in the fields and behind the barricades-to colonize the nation, pioneer the West, and run the defense industries of World War II. In the decades between, economic forces and cultural attitudes shunted them back into the home, confining them to the role of moral beacon and domestic goddess. Told chronologically through the compelling true stories of individuals whose lives, linked together, provide a complete picture of the American woman's experience, Untitled is a landmark work and major contribution for us all.

Titel

America's Women

Untertitel

400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines

Autor

Gail Collins

EAN

9780061739224

Format

E-Book (epub)

Hersteller

HarperCollins