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Decades of discontent : the women's movement, 1920-1940 / edited, with an introduction by Lois Scharf and Joan M. Jensen.

Contributor Scharf, Lois.

Imprint:Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1983.

Descriptionviii, 313 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note:Includes index.

Note:The new woman: changing views of women in the 1920s / Estelle B. Freedman. - The economics of middle-income family life: working women during the Great Depression / Winifred D. Wandersee. - Chicanas and Mexican immigrant families, 1920-1940: women's subordination and family exploitation / Rosalinda M. González. - Flawed victories: the experiences of black and white women workers in Durham during the 1930s / Dolores Janiewski. - The projection of a new womanhood: the movie moderns in the 1920s / Mary P. Ryan. - Culture and radical politics: Yiddish women writers in America, 1890-1940 / Norma Pratt. - Photographing women: the farm security administration work of MArion Post Wolcott / Julie Boddy. - Two washes in the morning and a bridge party at night: the American housewife between the wars / Ruth Schwartz-Cowan. - All pink sisters: the War Department and the feminist movement in the 1920s / Joan M. Jensen. - International feminism between the wars: the National Woman's Party versus the League of Women Voters / Susan Becker. - The 'forgotten woman': working women, the New Deal, and women's organizations / Lois Scharf. - Discontented Black feminists: prelude and postscript to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment / Rosalyn Terborg-Penn. - Socialist feminism between the two world wars: insights from oral history / Sherna Gluck.

Bibliography Note:Bibliography: p. [299]-304.



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Scharf, Lois.
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Series Added Entry
Contributions in women's studies, 0147-104X ; no. 28
Subject:
Women -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Women -- Employment -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Feminism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Women -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century.