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1 online resource |
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Cover; Generations; Title Page; Copyright © 1997 by Myriam Miedzian and Alisa Malinovich; Acknowledgment; Dedication; Explanation of Book Layout; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Epigraph; I Never Knew We Were Poor; GROWING UP; Growing Up: The First Generation; Leave the Door Slightly Ajar; We Respected Our Elders; I Never Saw My Parents' Marriage Certificate; I Felt Very Sorry for My Mother; Everything Was So Segregated; How Could I Have Just Accepted It; Mining Towns Were Rough and Ready; The Path of Femininity; My Parents Were Professional Bridge Players; My, How We Danced |
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Growing Up: The Second GenerationThe Jitterbug Was Very Popular; My Mother Was a Housewife; My Mother Would Say Gaman; We Were Very Aware of Being a Minority; It Was Like Going from Darkness to Daylight; Nice Guys and Not-Nice Guys; My Parents Dreamed a Big Dream; It Was 1960; Did You Ever See Panic in Needle Park?; I Was Nineteen, I Was a Hippie; Growing Up: The Third Generation; The Real Live Thing; This American Life; Would the Mother Please Stand; I Remember the Day My Dad Said He Was Leaving; Facades; I Kept Saying No; Dad, I'm a Lesbian, You Probably Knew; I Feel Very Close to Women |
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My Grandmother Raised Me to Cook and CleanThe Last Virgin on Flatbush Avenue; You Ought to Be My All and All; FAMILY; Family: The First Generation; The Second Marriage Was the Real Marriage, Except We Never Married; I Met My Husband at the LaGuardia Campaign; When The First Blade Of Grass Came Up, We Were Thrilled; A Wonderful Life; Men Always Made the Big Decisions; Women of My Generation Closed Their Eyes; I Always Had a Wild Temper; This Square That My Kids Thought I Was; Family: The Second Generation; You Never Realize How Much Work Is Involved; My Generation Was Transitional; I Expanded |
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He ContractedWe Split Up; I Had Sex, Therefore I Must Be in Love; Maybe This Is Really What I Am?; Harder on the Marriage Than on the Children; It Has to Be a Shared Responsibility; It's Called Survival; I Could Not Live in a Traditional Setting; Family: The Third Generation; I Do Things Out of the Norm; I Didn't Know Normal Would Be So Tiring; Our Marriage Is Too Important to Fight over It; Day by Day; He Had to Have Total Control; Slapping Force; His Family Is One Way and Mine Is Another; Not the Kind of Life My Mother Had; How Did Someone Like You Get Elected?; WORK |
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Work: The First GenerationI Found It Very Difficult to Be Heard; I Have Done a Lot of Volunteer Work; A Hundred and Thirty-One Women and One Toilet; The War Brought Women Out of Their Homes; I Don't Know Why I Wanted to Be a Doctor; What a Rigamarole; Work: The Second Generation; You Are Like a Little Wife at Work; I Never Planned a Career; I Don't Believe in Being a Crutch; I Believe in Assisting; I See Horrible Callousness; I've Never, Never Worn Pants to Teach; My Mother Said You Should Be Equipped to Do Something; They Don't Care about the Little Guy; Why Are You Doing That Kind of Work? |
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What are the differences in how your grandmother, your mother, and your daughter experience the world' Compare the story of your grandmother's first date with you mother's, your mother's volunteer work with your own career, your great-grandmother's education and expectations with those of a teen today. The women in this landmark work of oral history are from diverse ethnic, geographic, and social backgrounds, and they tell stories about all aspects of their lives, from their professional and romantic experiences to sex discrimination and their own realized or unrealized aspirations. The result is a dynamic and captivating portrait that all women will find themselves in, and a work which will stand as one of the lasting documents of century that very well may be remembered as the Women's Century. In recent decades volumes have been written on women's history and the effects the feminist movement has had on American culture. But something is missing from these accounts: how the reality and day-to-day texture of women's lives'whether or not they ever considered themselves "feminists"'have been transformed over the course of the twentieth century. As in the best oral history, the stories these women candidly tell are vivid and often poignantly detailed. We hear accounts of rural, chore-filled childhoods at the beginning of the century, of contemporary teens without curfews, of dates that began with a chat with father in the parlor, of the sexual liberation of the 1960s, of women who worked in factories during World War II, of those who were pioneers in their professions, and of women who today struggle heroically to balance the demands of marriage or single mothering, work, and children. Sweeping in scope, and yet rooted in the details, emotions, and dilemmas of everyday life, the journey women have traveled over the century here becomes all the more dramatic, the transformation they have undergone all the more remarkable. Generations is a celebration of this transformation in all its complexity, an embracing and vibrant family scrapbook that belongs to all American women |
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Title from resource description page (Recorded Books, viewed April 25, 2016) |
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Women -- United States -- Social conditions
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Women -- United States -- Biography
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Women -- United States -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
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Women
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Women -- Social conditions
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United States
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Malinovich, Alisa
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| ISBN |
9780802192783 |
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0802192785 |
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