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The paradox of change : American women in the 20th century

Chafe, William H. 1942- (Author). Chafe, William H. 1942- American woman. (Added Author).

Summary: With The Paradox of Change, Chafe builds on his classic work, taking full account of the events and scholarship of the last fifteen years, as he extends his analysis into the 1990s with the rise of feminism and the New Right. Chafe conveys all the subtleties of women's paradoxical position in the United States today, showing how women have gradually entered more fully into economic and political life, but without attaining complete social equality or economic justice. Despite the gains achieved by feminist activists during the 1970s and 1980s, the tensions continued to abound between public and private roles, and the gap separating ideals of equal opportunity from the reality of economic discrimination widened. Women may have gained some new rights in the last two decades, but the feminization of poverty has also soared, with women constituting 70% of the adult poor. Moreover, a resurgence of conservatism, symbolized by the triumph of Phyllis Shlafly's anti-ERA coalition, has cast in doubt even some of the new rights of women, such as reproductive freedom. Chafe captures these complexities and contradictions with a lively combination of representative anecdotes and archival research, all backed up by statistical studies. As in The American Woman, Chafe once again examines "woman's place" throughout the 20th century, but now with a more nuanced and inclusive approach. There are insightful portraits of the continuities of women's political activism from the Progressive era through the New Deal; of the contradictory gains and losses of the World War II years; and of the various kinds of feminism that emerged out of the tumult of the 1960s. Not least, there are narratives of all the significant struggles in which women have engaged during these last ninety years--for child care, for abortion rights, and for a chance to have both a family and a career. The Paradox of Change is a wide-ranging history of 20th-century women, thoroughly researched and incisively argued. It is essential for anyone who wants to learn more about how women have shaped, and been shaped by, modern America.

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  • ISBN: 0195044185
  • ISBN: 9780195044188
  • ISBN: 0195044193
  • ISBN: 9780195044195
  • Physical Description: print
    xvi, 256 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.

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General Note:
Revised edition of: The American woman, 1972.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-250) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Politics and ideology, 1848-1940. -- Women and the economy, 1900-1940. -- The war decade. -- The postwar years and the revival of feminism.
Subject: Women United States History 20th century
Women's rights United States History 20th century
Women
Women's rights
United States
United States
Women Social conditions History
United States
Genre: History.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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Lummi Library HQ 1426 .C43 1991 252353 Stacks Available -

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