Gail Collins
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Spanning four centuries of history, America's Women describes the way women's lives have been altered by medical advances, social theories about sex and courtship, and ever-changing attitudes toward education, work, and politics. Gail Collins, the editorial page editor at the New York Times, chronicles not only the lives of the famous, but also those of everyday women — their families, careers and personal choices.
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Describes the insidious beliefs and institutions that undermined women's confidence in their intellectual capabilities and kept them in the home. Writing in a time when the average woman first married in her teens and 60 percent of women students dropped out of college to marry, Betty Friedan captured the frustrations and thwarted ambitions of a generation and showed women how they could reclaim their lives.