A century of women : the history of women in Britain and the United States
"In A Century of Women, Sheila Rowbotham surveys women's activities and changing status in Britain and the United States in an effort to document cultural influences across the Atlantic. In a book principally of interest to undergraduates and general readers, Rowbotham addresses the topics...
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| Institution: | ETUI-European Trade Union Institute |
| Format: | TEXT |
| Language: | English |
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New York
1997
Viking Penguin |
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| Online Access: | https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19298251124910164339-a-century-of-women-the-history.htm |
| Summary: | "In A Century of Women, Sheila Rowbotham surveys women's activities and changing status in Britain and the United States in an effort to document cultural influences across the Atlantic. In a book principally of interest to undergraduates and general readers, Rowbotham addresses the topics of politics, employment, sexual attitudes and behaviors, and daily life. Her discussions of daily life consider unpaid work, marriage, fertility, family life, and popular culture. Each of the chronologically structured chapters of A Century of Women begins with a treatment of women in Britain followed by a treatment of women in the United States, an organizational scheme that undermines Rowbotham's stated goal of rendering a comparative history. Despite her intentions, Rowbotham rarely shows how American phenomena affected British thinking or vice versa. For example, we learn that the Beatles came to America and that some American teenage girls longed to become Beatles, while we are left to speculate about the aspirations of British teens." |
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| Physical Description: | 764 p. Paper |