Women between two worlds : midlife reflections on work and family
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Bibliographic Information
Women between two worlds : midlife reflections on work and family
（Women in the political economy）
Temple University Press, c1992
- pbk. : alk. paper
Available at 3 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-217) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780877228844
Description
An in-depth study traces the experiences of 22 middle-class women and their evolution from traditional wives and mothers to career women
Table of Contents
Preface Acknowledgments Study Participants 1. Introduction 2. Growing Up Female: The Possible and the Appropriate 3. Becoming Adult Women 4. At Home 5. From Housewives to Career Women 6. The Persistence of Domesticity 7. Between Two Worlds 8. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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pbk. : alk. paper ISBN 9780877228851
Description
Myra Dinnerstein examines the choices and compromises of a generation of women who came of age after World War II. Her in-depth study traces the experiences of twenty-two middle-class women from childhood to adulthood and their evolution from traditional wives and mothers to career women at midlife. Her richly detailed interviews explore the tensions of combining work, marriage, and family life and remind us of the significance of one's social and personal context with respect to the ability to make satisfying choices. Middle-class women born between 1936 and 1944 have been split between two worlds. As they were growing up, traditional expectations and limited opportunities seemed to make marriage and motherhood inevitable choices. When they reached their thirties, the Women's Movement and expanding opportunities in the workplace presented options for them that had not been available to their mothers. Now it was considered appropriate for women to have ambitions and to act on them and the women described in this book were among those who did. Myra Dinnerstein is Research Professor and founding Director of Women's Studies at the University of Arizona.
She is co-editor of "Changing Our Minds: Feminist Transformations of Knowledge".
Table of Contents
Preface Acknowledgments Study Participants 1. Introduction 2. Growing Up Female: The Possible and the Appropriate 3. Becoming Adult Women 4. At Home 5. From Housewives to Career Women 6. The Persistence of Domesticity 7. Between Two Worlds 8. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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