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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.420904 EAN: 9780670874200 ISBN: 0670874205 Label: Viking Adult Manufacturer: Viking Adult Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 752 Publication Date: December 01, 1997 Publisher: Viking Adult Studio: Viking Adult Related Items: Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: A Century of Women is an amiable though exhaustingly packed overview of women's lives from 1900 to the 1990s in England and America, two countries joined by a language but divergent in many other ways. Cross-pollination of fads and politics ferried across the Atlantic yielded similar, though hardly identical, fruit. The British suffragettes who plotted ways to get themselves jailed inspired their American sisters, who leaned more heavily on the lever of propaganda. Tactics used by women trying to unionize the U.S. garment trade owed a tip of the hat to English labor organizers who encouraged waves of strikes in the first decade of the century. In the 1960s, when ripples from the American women's liberation movement splashed down in parts of England, trade unionists fought for equal job opportunities and the London Women's Liberation Workshop labeled their newsletter "Harpies Bizarre." Sheila Rowbotham fills each page with so many quotes, people, and events that readers may grow frustrated at being hustled along too fast to enjoy a particular time. Product Description: World War politics, universal suffrage, huge global migrations. Maternal welfare, the sexual revolution, the transformation of working women's lives. In A Century of Women renowned social and feminist historian Sheila Rowbotham charts, decade by decade, a century of changes and interchanges in the lives of women and the ways they themselves have determined the course of history. From the nameless women who marched for the vote, stood on picket lines, and refused to ride segregated buses, to the politicians, poets, and film stars whose faces are legendary, their stories are told in rich detail. Entertaining essays, interspersed throughout, discuss body and image, popular fiction, prostitution, lesbian culture, the automobile, the kitchen, Barbie dolls, and more; a final section gathers biographies of four hundred notable women. And threaded through this engrossing book are the submerged but significant experiences of every woman--from births to betrayals, from ecstasy to laundry day. 
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