Matches in Harvard for { <http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/002851881/catalog> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 34 of
34
with 100 items per page.
- catalog abstract "Many think of America in the 1950s as our last happy decade, with every family just like the one in "Leave It to Beaver," and every woman living just like Donna Reed. In fact, it was a time of great fear, especially for women, and especially the fear of not fitting in. As a woman you were odd if you graduated from college without being married; if you were married, you were odd if you didn't immediately have children; if you had children, you were odd if you also wanted. To work. Before the feminist movement, women were treated as second-class citizens whose roles were utterly restricted, and The Fifties: A Women's Oral History fully explores those roles, the women who lived them, and the women who broke the molds. Filled with moving and revealing stories from a broad canvas of women speaking in their own words, The Fifties tells what it really was like to be a "good girl," to get an illegal abortion, to try against all odds for an. Advanced academic degree, to raise children and keep a home in the suburbs, to follow your dreams of having a profession, and even to live, politically and sexually, far from the mainstream of American life. These are stories of women's lives - some very tragic, some remarkably heroic - and they reveal to us all over again an era we thought we knew so well.".
- catalog alternative "50s".
- catalog contributor b4140707.
- catalog coverage "United States Social life and customs 1945-1970.".
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog description "Advanced academic degree, to raise children and keep a home in the suburbs, to follow your dreams of having a profession, and even to live, politically and sexually, far from the mainstream of American life. These are stories of women's lives - some very tragic, some remarkably heroic - and they reveal to us all over again an era we thought we knew so well.".
- catalog description "Going all the way -- Getting caught -- Post-doc or paella? -- Mrs. Someone -- The motherhood drift -- Living the dream -- Something to fall back on? -- Swimming upstream -- The silence -- Which side are you on? -- Epilogue.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-230).".
- catalog description "Many think of America in the 1950s as our last happy decade, with every family just like the one in "Leave It to Beaver," and every woman living just like Donna Reed. In fact, it was a time of great fear, especially for women, and especially the fear of not fitting in. As a woman you were odd if you graduated from college without being married; if you were married, you were odd if you didn't immediately have children; if you had children, you were odd if you also wanted.".
- catalog description "To work. Before the feminist movement, women were treated as second-class citizens whose roles were utterly restricted, and The Fifties: A Women's Oral History fully explores those roles, the women who lived them, and the women who broke the molds. Filled with moving and revealing stories from a broad canvas of women speaking in their own words, The Fifties tells what it really was like to be a "good girl," to get an illegal abortion, to try against all odds for an.".
- catalog extent "xxi, 230 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Fifties.".
- catalog identifier "0060162791 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Fifties.".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : HarperCollins Publishers,".
- catalog relation "Fifties.".
- catalog spatial "United States Social life and customs 1945-1970.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "305.42/0973 20".
- catalog subject "Feminism United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "HQ1420 .H347 1993".
- catalog subject "Women United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Women United States Social conditions.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Going all the way -- Getting caught -- Post-doc or paella? -- Mrs. Someone -- The motherhood drift -- Living the dream -- Something to fall back on? -- Swimming upstream -- The silence -- Which side are you on? -- Epilogue.".
- catalog title "50s".
- catalog title "The fifties : a women's oral history / Brett Harvey.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".