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WOMEN BETWEEN TWO WORLDS
MIDLIFE REFLECTIONS ON WORK AND FAMILY |
| By: |
Myra Dinnerstein |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£23.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
087722885X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780877228851 |
| Publisher: |
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS,U.S. |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 1992 |
| Series: |
Women in the Political Economy |
| Pages: |
210 |
| Description: |
Examines the choices and compromises of a generation of women who came of age after World War II. This study traces the experiences of twenty-two middle-class women from childhood to adulthood and their evolution from traditional wives and mothers to career women at midlife. It explores the tensions of combining work, marriage, and family life. |
| Synopsis: |
Myra Dinnerstein examines the choices and compromises of a generation of women who came of age after World War II. Her in-depth study traces the experiences of twenty-two middle-class women from childhood to adulthood and their evolution from traditional wives and mothers to career women at midlife. Her richly detailed interviews explore the tensions of combining work, marriage, and family life and remind us of the significance of one's social and personal context with respect to the ability to make satisfying choices. Middle-class women born between 1936 and 1944 have been split between two worlds. As they were growing up, traditional expectations and limited opportunities seemed to make marriage and motherhood inevitable choices. When they reached their thirties, the Women's Movement and expanding opportunities in the workplace presented options for them that had not been available to their mothers. Now it was considered appropriate for women to have ambitions and to act on them and the women described in this book were among those who did. Myra Dinnerstein is Research Professor and founding Director of Women's Studies at the University of Arizona.She is co-editor of "Changing Our Minds: Feminist Transformations of Knowledge". |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Temple University Press,U.S. |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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