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. In Pushing the Limits, Elaine Tyler May shows how women's lives in the United States reflected and helped to shape these world changes. During the war, women joined the military effort through the WACS (Women's Army Corps) and the WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195124073
• ISBN13: 9780195124071
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12