Nurses' questions/women's questions : the impact of the demographic revolution and feminism on United States working women, 1946-1986
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Nurses' questions/women's questions : the impact of the demographic revolution and feminism on United States working women, 1946-1986
(American university studies, Series XXVII . Feminist studies ; vol. 5)
P. Lang, c1996
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-202) and index
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In the forty year period after World War II, American women's roles and perceptions changed dramatically. Between 1946 and 1986 married females became a large and stable component of the labor force. During the late 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s, a growing number of these women adopted the beliefs of the re-emerging feminist movement. This study analyzes the impact of both the demographic revolution and the women's movement on postwar women workers. It also traces the rise of a conservative backlash and examines the reasons traditionalist women found feminism threatening. Nursing, a historically feminized occupation, is the prism through which postwar women are studied.
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