Newspapers & Magazines - General & Miscellaneous, Women's History - 20th Century, 20th Century American History - Social Aspects - General & Miscellaneous, 20th Century American History - General & Miscellaneous, Women's History - U.S. - General & Miscell
This compendium of compelling articles and advertisements from women's magazines of the 1940s and 1950s chronicles the debate over women's domestic and public roles during two decades of enormous social change in America.
Synopsis
This compendium of compelling articles and advertisements from women's magazines of the 1940s and 1950s chronicles the debate over women's domestic and public roles during two decades of enormous social change in America.
Booknews
Collects 54 articles from mass-circulation magazines for women published between 1940 and 1960. The book is designed primarily for courses in American history, American studies, women's studies, and popular culture. The articles are grouped into subject areas such as WWII, women and the workplace, marriage and motherhood, homemaking, fashion and beauty, and critiques of the women's magazines. Introductions to each section provide historical context. Appends discussion questions and suggestions for further reading. Distributed by St. Martin's Press. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
About the Author, Nancy A. Walker
Nancy A. Walker is a professor of English and former director of the women's studies program at Vanderbilt University. Previously she has taught at Stephens College, where she served as chair of the department of languages and literature from 1984 to 1989. A specialist in American women writers, she has published A Very Serious Thing: Women's Humor and American Culture (1988): Feminist ALternatives: Irony and Fantasy in the Contemporary Novel by Women (1990); and The Disobedient Writer: Women and Narrative Tradition (1995). She is editor of Redressing the Balance: American Women's Humor from the Colonies to the 1980s (1988); Communication: The Autobiography of Rachel Maddux (1991); and Kate Chopin's The Awakening: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism (Bedford Books, 1993).
Collects 54 articles from mass-circulation magazines for women published between 1940 and 1960. The book is designed primarily for courses in American history, American studies, women's studies, and popular culture. The articles are grouped into subject areas such as WWII, women and the workplace, marriage and motherhood, homemaking, fashion and beauty, and critiques of the women's magazines. Introductions to each section provide historical context. Appends discussion questions and suggestions for further reading. Distributed by St. Martin's Press. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
