At odds : women and the family in America from the Revolution to the present / Carl N. Degler
1980, First Edition. New York : Oxford University Press. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, with mylar-sleeve. Library marks remain. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #477672
ISBN: 0195026578
Physical description; xiv, 527 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-514) and index. Contents; The Emergence of the Modern American Family -- Wives and Husbands -- Wife and Mother -- Women and Children -- Inducting Children into the Social Order -- Under Stress: Families of Afro-Americans and Immigrants -- Women Challenge the Family -- Women in the Making of the Demographic Transition -- Limiting Fertility -- Abortion: Women's Last Resort -- Women's Sexuality in 19th-Century America -- Organizing to Control Sexuality -- The World is Only a Large Home -- The Suffrage Fight: The Last Step Was Really the First -- Women's Work: The First Transformation -- Women at Work: Unions, Farms, and Professions -- The Second Transformation in Women's Work -- Women's Dilemma -- Notes -- Index. Subjects; Women United States History. Families United States History. Family history. Women history.
Price: €10.95