Rosie the Riveter Revisited
Author: Sherna Berger Gluck
Publisher: Plume
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe women who tell their stories in this extraordinary oral history worked in World War II defense plants.
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Women's Words
Author: Sherna Berger Gluck
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-07-29
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 1136742700
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen's Words is the first collection of writings devoted exclusively to exploring the theoretical, methodological, and practical problems that arise when women utilize oral history as a tool of feminist scholarship. In thirteen multi-disciplin ary esays, the book takes stock of the implicit presuppositions , contradictions, and prospects of oral h
Manhood on the Line
Author: Stephen Meyer
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2016-04-15
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0252098250
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStephen Meyer charts the complex vagaries of men reinventing manhood in twentieth century America. Their ideas of masculinity destroyed by principles of mass production, workers created a white-dominated culture that defended its turf against other racial groups and revived a crude, hypersexualized treatment of women that went far beyond the shop floor. At the same time, they recast unionization battles as manly struggles against a system killing their very selves. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, Meyer recreates a social milieu in stunning detail--the mean labor and stolen pleasures, the battles on the street and in the soul, and a masculinity that expressed itself in violence and sexism but also as a wellspring of the fortitude necessary to maintain one's dignity while doing hard work in hard world.
From Coveralls to Zoot Suits
Author: Elizabeth R. Escobedo
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2013-03-21
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1469602067
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring World War II, unprecedented employment avenues opened up for women and minorities in U.S. defense industries at the same time that massive population shifts and the war challenged Americans to rethink notions of race. At this extraordinary historical moment, Mexican American women found new means to exercise control over their lives in the home, workplace, and nation. In From Coveralls to Zoot Suits, Elizabeth R. Escobedo explores how, as war workers and volunteers, dance hostesses and zoot suiters, respectable young ladies and rebellious daughters, these young women used wartime conditions to serve the United States in its time of need and to pursue their own desires. But even after the war, as Escobedo shows, Mexican American women had to continue challenging workplace inequities and confronting family and communal resistance to their broadening public presence. Highlighting seldom heard voices of the "Greatest Generation," Escobedo examines these contradictions within Mexican families and their communities, exploring the impact of youth culture, outside employment, and family relations on the lives of women whose home-front experiences and everyday life choices would fundamentally alter the history of a generation.
From Out of the Shadows
Author: Vicki L. Ruiz
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780195130997
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVicki L. Ruiz provides the first full study of Mexican-American women in the 20th century, in a narrative enhanced by interviews and personal stories that capture a vivid sense of the Mexicana experience in the United States. Beginning with the first wave of women crossing the border early this century, Ruiz reveals the struggles they have faced, the communities they have built, and also highlights the various forms of political protest they have initiated. What emerges from the book is a portrait of a distinctive culture in America that has slowly gathered strength in the last 95 years.
From Out of the Shadows
Author: Vicki Ruíz
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 2008-11-05
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0195374770
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn anniversary edition of the first full study of Mexican American women in the twentieth century, with new preface
The Columbia Documentary History of American Women Since 1941
Author: Harriet Sigerman
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 730
ISBN-13: 9780231116985
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLiquid Metal brings together 'seminal' essays that have opened up the study of science fiction to serious critical interrogation. Eight distinct sections cover such topics as the cyborg in science fiction; the science fiction city; time travel and the primal scene; science fiction fandom; and the 1950s invasion narratives. Important writings by Susan Sontag, Vivian Sobchack, Steve Neale, J.P. Telotte, Peter Biskind and Constance Penley are included.
Our Mothers' War
Author: Emily Yellin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2010-05-11
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 1439103585
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOur Mothers' War is a stunning and unprecedented portrait of women during World War II, a war that forever transformed the way women participate in American society. Never before has the vast range of women's experiences during this pivotal era been brought together in one book. Now, Our Mothers' War re-creates what American women from all walks of life were doing and thinking, on the home front and abroad. These heartwarming and sometimes heartbreaking accounts of the women we have known as mothers, aunts, and grandmothers reveal facets of their lives that have usually remained unmentioned and unappreciated. Our Mothers' War gives center stage to one of WWII's most essential fighting forces: the women of America, whose extraordinary bravery, strength, and humanity shine through on every page.
Wives of Steel
Author: Karen Olson
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780271026855
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWives of Steel is based on more than eighty formal interviews conducted over a fifteen-year period with women and some men, both white and black, all of whom were part of Sparrows Point as workers, spouses, or longtime residents of the local communities. Through the stories they tell, we see how a male-dominated industry has influenced personal, family, and social experiences over several generations. We also see the distinct differences and surprising similarities among the lives of black and white women, which often reflect the complicated relationships among black and white steelworkers in the plant.
Christianity and the Making of the Modern Family
Author: Rosemary R. Ruether
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2001-07-13
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780807054079
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow did a religion whose founding proponents advocated a shocking disregard of earthly ties come to extol the virtues of the "traditional" family? In this richly textured history of the relationship between Christianity and the family, Rosemary Radford Ruether traces the development of these centerpieces of modern life to reveal the misconceptions at the heart of the "family values" debate.
