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Little, Brown and Company (2009), Edition: 1, Hardcover, 480 pages
Description
Tells how American women got from there to here, in politics, fashion, economics, sex, families and work in the past five decades.
Media reviews
Among the impressive features of Ms. Collins’s book is her genial, fair-minded sympathy, her refusal to smirk at the excesses of the most radical ’70s feminists or at the stances of women, among them Phyllis Schlafly, who counseled their sisters to stay home where they belonged. This
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evenhandedness seems all the more admirable later in the book, when she considers the significance of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s and Sarah Palin’s roles in the 2008 presidential election. Show Less
Did feminism fail?
Gail Collins’s smart, thorough, often droll and extremely readable account of women’s recent history in America not only answers this question brilliantly, but also poses new ones about the past and the present, as she explicates moments that were widely recorded and
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illuminates scenes that were barely remarked upon at the time. Show Less
Although women have come a long way, baby, Collins acknowledges that — in 21st century America — they haven't figured out how to raise children and hold down a job at the same time, or to keep marriages from cascading into divorce. Nonetheless, her splendid book reminds us that their moms
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created a world their grandmas "did not even have the opportunity to imagine." Show Less
Awards
Ohioana Book Award (Finalist — Nonfiction — 2010)
Dayton Literary Peace Prize (Longlist — Nonfiction — 2010)
The New York Times Notable Books of the Year (Nonfiction — 2009)
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Physical description
480 p.; 9.45 inches
ISBN
0316059544 / 9780316059541