When everything changed : the amazing journey of American women from 1960 to the present

著者

• Collins, Gail

書誌事項

When everything changed : the amazing journey of American women from 1960 to the present

Gail Collins

Little, Brown, 2009

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 441-452) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

WHEN EVERYTHING CHANGED begins in 1960 when American women actually had to get their husband's permission to apply for a credit card. In the years since, American women have witnessed exciting changes, expectations about what their lives could be smashed in just a generation. The story ends in the 21st century, with a woman winning a Presidential primary. This book tells us how women got from there to here, in politics, fashion, economics, sex, families and work. A comprehensive mix of oral history and Gail Collins's keen research, WHEN EVERYTHING CHANGED is the definitive book on five crucial decades of progress, told with the down-to-earth, amusing and agenda-free tone for which this beloved New York Times columnist is known. Collins spoke with the women who lived these transformative years, including an advertising executive in the 60s who was not allowed to attend board meetings that took place in the all-male dining room and an airline stewardess who was required to bend over to light her passengers' cigars on a men-only 'Executive Flight'. Picking up where her highly-lauded book America's Women left off, WHEN EVERYTHING CHANGED is the dynamic story of cataclysmic change, a story Gail Collins seems to have been born to tel

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB03141214
• ISBN:
  • 9780316059541
• LCCN: 2008054933
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: New York
• ページ数/冊数: viii, 471 p., [16] p. of plates
• 大きさ: 25 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : HQ1421
  • DC22 : 305.40973/09045
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Women -- United States -- History
  • LCSH : Women -- United States -- Social conditions
  • LCSH : Women -- United States -- Social life and customs