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When Everything Changed - The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present (Paperback)
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When Everything Changed - The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present (Paperback)
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Gail Collins, New York Times columnist and bestselling author,
recounts the astounding revolution in women's lives over the past
50 years, with her usual "sly wit and unfussy style" (People).
"When Everything Changed" begins in 1960, when most American women
had to get their husbands' permission to apply for a credit card.
It ends in 2008 with Hillary Clinton's historic presidential
campaign. This was a time of cataclysmic change, when, after four
hundred years, expectations about the lives of American women were
smashed in just a generation.
A comprehensive mix of oral history and Gail Collins's keen
research--covering politics, fashion, popular culture, economics,
sex, families, and work--"When Everything Changed" is the
definitive book on five crucial decades of progress. The enormous
strides made since 1960 include the advent of the birth control
pill, the end of "Help Wanted--Male" and "Help Wanted--Female" ads,
and the lifting of quotas for women in admission to medical and law
schools. Gail Collins describes what has happened in every realm of
women's lives, partly through the testimonies of both those who
made history and those who simply made their way.
Picking up where her highly lauded book "America's Women" left off,
"When Everything Changed" is a dynamic story, told with the
down-to-earth, amusing, and agenda-free tone for which this beloved
"New York Times "columnist is known. Older readers, men and women
alike, will be startled as they are reminded of what their lives
once were--"Father Knows Best" and "My Little Margie" on TV; daily
weigh-ins for stewardesses; few female professors; no women in the
Boston marathon, in combat zones, or in the police department.
Younger readers will see their history in a rich new way. It has
been an era packed with drama and dreams--some dashed and others
realized beyond anyone's imagining.
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