A Century of Women: The Most Influential Events in Twentieth-Century Women's History

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Comprehensive and riveting, this important volume on women's history surveys the revolutionary changes in the social, economic, and political status of women during the twentieth century. From the battles of suffragists and labor activists such as Carrie Chapman Catt and Rose Schneiderman to the provocative ideas of Betty Friedan, here are the women of vision and courage who fought for equality and freedom. But here too are the unexpected medical and technological discoveries that removed a woman's destiny from ...
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Comprehensive and riveting, this important volume on women's history surveys the revolutionary changes in the social, economic, and political status of women during the twentieth century. From the battles of suffragists and labor activists such as Carrie Chapman Catt and Rose Schneiderman to the provocative ideas of Betty Friedan, here are the women of vision and courage who fought for equality and freedom. But here too are the unexpected medical and technological discoveries that removed a woman's destiny from the restrictions of biology -- the electric washing machine, anesthesia for childbirth, sulfa drugs to stop post-partum deaths, the birth control pill, and more. This lively and provocative history covers groundbreaking legislation and Supreme Court rulings, yet it doesn't neglect the often conflicting cultural forces -- from Emily Post and Barbie to the founding of the La Leche League and Ellen DeGeneres's sitcom -- that have shaped women's lives in today's world.
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Organized on a decade-by-decade basis, this book claims to focus on "influential events that have shaped the destiny of women during each decade of the 20th century." A fascinating array of events has been selected, running the gamut from the founding of organizations like the League of Women Voters and the Girl Scouts, to the emergence of icons like Barbie, Betty Crocker, and Ann Landers, to the patenting of the brassiere. Each event is accompanied by a brief essay explaining and analyzing the topic under review. No area of American life is ignored--there are articles on fashion, medicine, literature, television, the magazine industry, and politics. A detailed appendix notes famous female "firsts." Despite the intrinsic appeal of the subject, though, scholars will find much to question. Idiosyncratic omissions like Geraldine Ferraro's selection as the 1984 Democratic vice presidential nominee, the difficulty of summarizing the impact of both world wars on women, and the absence of an index all weaken this volume's utility as a serious reference tool. For popular collections only.--Marie Marmo Mullaney, Caldwell Coll., NJ
School Library Journal
YA-Felder has put together an interesting history, chronicling the changes that have occurred over the last 100 years and highlighting the events and people that have revolutionized womanhood in America. The book begins with Carry Nation's saloon visits, Mary McLeod Bethune's founding of an institute, the creation of unions to protect and fight for the rights of women in the trade and garment industry, and the invention of the washing machine and twilight sleep techniques for painless childbirth. The book includes the 1990s' hard-won battles to allow women to enter the military and military schools and studies that reflect the need to analyze whether teachers are giving girls the attention and education they need to be successful in life. Although not a complex study of the period, this is an interesting and useful overview. Good-quality black-and-white photos appear throughout, and a list of "influential firsts" is appended.- Linda A. Vretos, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, VA Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.
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A general reader's guide to such events as the formation of the National Women's Trade Union League, Amelia Earhart's solo flight across the Atlantic, the invention of the bikini, Ellen DeGeneres' sitcom character's de-closeting, and the release of the American Association of University Women's report "How Schools Shortchange Girls." Felder is the author of 11 books, including . Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780806525266
  • Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
  • Publication date: 11/28/2003
  • Pages: 384
  • Product dimensions: 6.96 (w) x 9.84 (h) x 1.04 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
1900-1909
Prohibitionist Carry Nation Hatchets Saloons 3
The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union Is Formed 6
The Electric Washing Machine Is Invented 13
The Twilight Sleep Technique for Painless Childbirth Is Introduced 17
The National Women's Trade Union League Is Formed 23
Mary McLeod Bethune Founds the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute for Negro Girls 29
1910-1919
The Mann Act Outlaws Interstate Transportation of Women for Immoral Purposes 35
The New Medium of Film Creates the First Women Movie Stars 39
Dr. Alice Hamilton Publishes the First Study of Occupational Disease 44
More Than One Hundred Women Garment Workers Are Killed in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire 48
The First International Women's Day Is Celebrated 52
Juliette Gordon Low Founds the Girl Scouts of the USA 55
New York Socialite Mary Phelps Jacobs Patents the Brassiere 59
Mother's Day Becomes a National Holiday 62
Vogue Becomes the Leading Fashion Magazine 65
The Woman's Peace Party Is Founded 70
The First Birth Control Clinic Opens in Brooklyn, New York 76
Jeanette Rankin Becomes the First Woman Elected to the U.S. Congress 81
World War I 87
The League of Women Voters Is Founded 92
1920-1929
Congress Ratifies the Nineteenth Amendment, Guaranteeing Women the Right to Vote 97
Betty Crocker, Advertising's Symbol of Domesticity, Makes Her First Appearance 106
The First Miss America Is Crowned 110
The Sheppard-Towner Act Is Passed by the U.S. Congress 115
Women Track and Field Athletes Are Included Under the Jurisdiction of the Amateur Athletic Union 119
The Landmark Six-Volume History of Woman Suffrage Is Published 122
Emily Post's Etiquette Is Published 126
Sex Hormones Are Discovered 130
Margaret Mead Publishes Coming of Age in Samoa 134
1930-1939
The Great Depression Begins 141
Amelia Earhart Flies Solo Across the Atlantic Ocean 146
Sulfa Drugs Are First Used Against Puerperal (Childbed) Fever 151
The National Council of Negro Women Is Organized 154
Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind Is Published 157
Karen Horney Challenges Freudian Conceptions of Female Psychology in New Ways in Psychoanalysis 162
1940-1949
World War II 169
Seventeen, a Magazine for Teenage Girls, Is First Published 174
The First Baby Boomers Are Born 179
French Fashion Designer Louis Reard Invents the Bikini 185
Modern Woman: The Lost Sex, a Postwar Treatise on the Status of Women, Is Published 189
1950-1959
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet Premiers 197
The Second Half of the Kinsey Report, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, Is Published 202
The First Playboy Magazine Hits Newsstands 206
Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex Is Published in English 210
Twin Sisters Esther Pauline and Pauline Esther Friedman Become "Ann Landers" and "Dear Abby" 215
The La Leche League Is Founded 220
Barbie Makes Her Debut 223
1960-1969
The FDA Approves the Birth Control Pill 231
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan Is Published 236
The President's Commission on the Status of Women Issues Its "American Women" Report 240
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Prohibits Sex Discrimination in Employment 245
The National Organization for Women Is Founded 250
Shirley Chisholm Becomes the First African-American Woman Member of Congress 254
1970-1979
The First Women's Studies Program Is Established by San Diego State College 261
Gloria Steinem Founds Ms. Magazine 265
Congress Passes the Equal Rights Amendment 270
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 Prohibits Discrimination on the Basis of Sex in Federally Funded Education Programs 274
The First Rape Crisis Centers Open 279
Abortion Is Legalized 283
The First Women Are Admitted to U.S. Military Academies 290
1980-1989
Sally Ride Becomes the First U.S. Woman Astronaut in Space 297
EMILY's List Is Founded to Help Fund Women's Political Campaigns 301
The Supreme Court Rules Against Sexual Harassment 305
The Supreme Court Prohibits Discrimination Against Women in Private Social Clubs 309
1990-1999
The American Association of University Women Publishes How Schools Shortchange Girls 315
An Unprecedented Number of Women Run for National Office 318
All Branches of the Military Are Ordered to Examine and Justify Policies That Exclude Women From Combat Duty 323
The Supreme Court Orders the Virginia Military Institute, the Last All-Male, State-Sponsored Military College, to Admit Women 327
Ellen DeGeneres's Sitcom Character Comes Out 331
Appendix 337
Bibliography 355
Index 359
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