In the forty year period after World War II, American women's roles and perceptions changed dramatically. Between 1946 and 1986 married females became a large and stable component of the labor force. During the late 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s, a growing number of these women adopted the beliefs of the re-emerging feminist movement. This study analyzes the impact of both the demographic revolution and the women's movement on postwar women workers. It also traces the rise of a conservative backlash and examines the reasons traditionalist women found feminism threatening. Nursing, a historically feminized occupation, is the prism through which postwar women are studied.
| ISBN: | 9780820427553 |
| Publication date: | 1st August 1996 |
| Author: | Susan Rimby Leighow |
| Publisher: | P. Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc. |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 208 pages |
| Series: | American University Studies. |
| Genres: |
Historiography Colonialism and imperialism Gender studies: women and girls Sociology History of medicine |
In the forty year period after World War II, American women's roles and perceptions changed dramatically. Between 1946 and 1986 married females became a large and stable component of the labor force. During the late 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s, a growing number of these women adopted the beliefs of the re-emerging feminist movement. This study analyzes the impact of both the demographic revolution and the women's movement on postwar women workers. It also traces the rise of a conservative backlash and examines the reasons traditionalist women found feminism threatening. Nursing, a historically feminized occupation, is the prism through which postwar women are studied.
Nurses' Questions/women's Questions features in the following genres: Historiography, Colonialism and imperialism, Gender studies: women and girls, Sociology, History of medicine
Nurses' Questions/women's Questions is available in Hardback
Nurses' Questions/women's Questions was written by Susan Rimby Leighow and published by P. Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc.
Nurses' Questions/women's Questions has 208 pages
Yes it is part of American University Studies. series