Pushing the Limits: American Women 1940-1961

by Elaine Tyler May

Book Overview

Americans living in the mid-20th century saw momentous change. A decade of severe economic depression in the 1930s was followed by the largest-scale war the world had ever seen. The Allies' victory in World War II brought formal peace and new prosperity but also the beginning of a tense and long-lasting cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Women's lives in the United States reflected and helped to shape these world changes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019508084X
• ISBN13: 9780195080841
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.8" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12