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We Band of Angels
We Band of Angels© 2001 Elizabeth M. Norman325 pages When Japan invaded the Philippines and besieged the Bataan peninsula, the Filipino-American army wasn’t the only entity enduring months of dwindling supplies and attritive warfare. Stationed alongside soldiers and sailors were … Continue reading
More Work for Mother
More Work for Mother: the Ironies of American Housework © 1985 Ruth Cowan 288 pages Throughout the 20thcentury, households were transformed by a new abundance of labor-saving devices, from washing machines to toaster ovens, and processed … Continue reading
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Tagged America, goods/services, history, home, social history, technology, Technology and Society, women, women's studies
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Astronaut Wives Club
The Astronaut Wives Club© 2013 Lily Koppell288 pages When a gang of test pilots joined the Mercury program, they and those who followed them didn’t have an inkling of what was to come– and their wives, their unwitting partners in … Continue reading
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Reviving Ophelia: A Reading
“Most preadolescent girls are marvelous company because they are interested in everything — sports, nature, people, music, and books. Almost all the heroines of girls’ literature come from this age group — Anne of Green Gables, Heidi, Pippi Longstocking and … Continue reading
Something from the Oven
Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America 306 pages © 2004 Laura Shaprio The latter half of the 20th century saw the United States convulsed with social change. Millions of women and blacks who found their … Continue reading
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Cinderella Ate My Daughter
Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture© 2012 Peggy Orenstein260 pages When did every little girl become a princess to be bedecked in pink and fawned over? Such is the question posed by … Continue reading
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Tagged adolescence, Alistair Horne, children, Disney, Eric Schlosser, goods/services, marketing, marriage and family, media, parenting, sexuality, Society and Culture, the Internet, women, women's studies
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