Women in Modern America: A Brief History [Paperback]

Lois W. Banner (Author)

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Publication Date: April 1984

As a primary text for courses covering the history of women in the United States, the second half of the U.S. survey, twentieth-century U.S. history, or as a supplement to a variety of sociology and political science courses, Professor Banner's book provides both pictorial and textual documentation of women's roles in the United States from 1890 to the present. Banner delineates three goals in her approach: to explore the reasons why feminism rose and fell and rose again, to examine the history of various groups of women, and to focus on the continuing struggle women face in claiming their rights. Features: * Examines how various groups of women - ethnic, economic, and geographic - responded to historical pressures and opportunities. * Analyzes the historical effect of the dichotomized image associated with women - the good wife, mother and homemaker versus the evil temptress. * Traces the history of feminism as advocacy of women's rights and examines its changing definitions throughout history. * Outlines historical discrimination against women, from employment and education to law and freedom of choice.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Lois Banner has taught at Rutgers University, Princeton University, the University of Scranton, Hamilton College, the University of Maryland, and George Washington University. Currently, she is Professor of History and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. Her previous books include AMERICAN BEAUTY; IN FULL FLOWER: AGING WOMEN, POWER, AND SEXUALITY and most recently Intertwined Lives, an acclaimed chronicle of the lives and loves of Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 303 pages
• Publisher: Harcourt College Pub; 2 Sub edition (April 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0155961969
• ISBN-13: 978-0155961968
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,655,370 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Not so organized, March 12, 2010

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I like this book overall, but the topics are not really organized in the best order, a little more confusing than a regular history book...

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3.0 out of 5 stars Women in Modern America, March 28, 2000

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The book, Women in Modern America objective succeeds early on in its presentation. The countless documented cases and events seem to support the Authors view. Women endured an unbelievable amount of suffrage and bias from men and even women sometimes. From education, the right to decide where to live, property rights, voting rights, motherhood, and aging women experienced tremendous suffrage. And the Heroines, not all women suffered. And those in the 1920s revealed much about attitudes towards women.