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Sexual power : feminism and the family in America /

Since the early 1970s, scholars have argued, defined, and refined a wide range of interpretations of American women's lives. Despite the richness of the recent literature, few interpretations sufficiently credit women's family and sexual experiences for the emergence of feminism and the co...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Johnston, Carolyn, 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©1992.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Colonial window: good wives and witches (1607-1776)
  • Republican motherhood and the angel in the house
  • Feminism for the sake of the family and community (1800-1900)
  • Power in the bedroom and the nursery (1800-1900)
  • Sex radicals: feminists against the traditional family
  • Suffrage movement: municipal housekeeping or full equality? (1848-1919)
  • Exquisite surrender? the new feminists of the 1920s
  • Empowerment of wives and mothers: surviving the great depression
  • Paradox of women's power during World War II
  • Power of mom: domesticity, motherhood, and sexuality in the 1950s
  • Feminist voices of the 1950s
  • Miss America good-bye: the modern feminist movement
  • Appendix 1: A portrait of marriage in the 1930s
  • Appendix 2: Black women oral history project
  • Appendix 3: The feminist movement in the 1970s: a chronology.