Generations: A Century of Women Speak About Their Lives

By W. McDonell

Book Overview

This extraordinary personal and touching account of women's lives over the past 100 years (Rocky Mountain News) is sweeping in scope, yet rooted in details, emotions, and dilemmas of everyday life--a dramatic, remarkable piece of American history. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871136783
• ISBN13: 9780871136787
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
• Length: 549 Pages
• Weight: 2.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 7.8" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Social History Makes Great Reading

I ordered this book because the price made it attractive, I have hardly put it down since it arrived. For anyone interested in the social history of the 20th century, anyone interested in the history of the rise of women's consciousness or anyone who likes to peek into other women's lives - this book makes great reading. Through women's own voices you get a sense of how attitudes and beliefs towards things like integration,...