The Paradox of Change: American Women in the 20th Century

by William Henry Chafe

Book Overview

When William Chafe's The American Woman was published in 1972, it was hailed as a breakthrough in the study of women in this century. Bella Abzug praised it as "a remarkable job of historical research," and Alice Kessler-Harris called it "an extraordinarily useful synthesis of material about 20th-century women." But much has happened in the last two decades--both in terms of scholarship, and in the lives of American women. With The Paradox of Change,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195044193
• ISBN13: 9780195044195
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.0"