The Century of Women

The Century of Women
Author: Maria Bucur
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2018-04-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1442257407

This innovative text explores the unprecedented changes in the realms of politics, demography, economics, culture, knowledge, and kinship that women have brought about in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Global in reach, the book provides a comparative analysis of developments worldwide to show both progress as well as new tensions and forms of inequality that have emerged out of women’s entry into politics, wage employment, education, and the production of culture. Beginning with suffrage and moving to participation in international movements—such as anti-war, labor, and environmental rights activism—Maria Bucur explores how women have transformed the operation of states and international institutions. She focuses on the radical demographic shifts since 1900 through the prism of changing practices in women’s sexuality, from birth control practices to education. Examining the continuing economic gender gap around the world, Bucur highlights ways women have been both beneficiaries of new economic opportunities and participants in developing new forms of inequality. Considering the remarkable achievements of women in the areas of knowledge making and cultural production, the author shifts her gaze toward the future and what these changes mean in terms of gender norms and evolving kinship relations. She thus presents a new perspective on contemporary world history, centered on how women have become both the subjects and objects of seismic shifts in the political, social, and economic structures of societies across the globe.

A Century of Women

A Century of Women
Author: Sheila Rowbotham
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Total Pages: 764
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780140279023

A distinguished social and feminist historian chronicles the dramatic changes that have taken place in the lives of American and British women over the course of the last one hundred years, explaining how women have shaped the twentieth century and featuring essays on topics ranging from lesbian culture to Barbie dolls.

A Century of Votes for Women

A Century of Votes for Women
Author: Christina Wolbrecht
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2020-01-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107187494

Examines how and why American women voted since the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920.

Women in Eighteenth Century Europe

Women in Eighteenth Century Europe
Author: Margaret Hunt
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 561
Release: 2014-06-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 131788387X

Was the century of Voltaire also the century of women? In the eighteenth century changes in the nature of work, family life, sexuality, education, law, religion, politics and warfare radically altered the lives of women. Some of these developments caused immense confusion and suffering; others greatly expanded women’s opportunities and worldview – long before the various women’s suffrage movements were more than a glimmer on the horizon. This study pays attention to queens as well as commoners; respectable working women as well as prostitutes; women physicists and mathematicians as well as musicians and actresses; feminists as well as their critics. The result is a rich and morally complex tale of conflict and tragedy, but also of achievement. The book deals with many regions and topics often under-represented in general surveys of European women, including coverage of the Balkans and both European Turkey and Anatolia, of Eastern Europe, of European colonial expansion (particularly the slave trade) and of Muslim, Eastern Orthodox, and Jewish women's history. Bringing all of Europe into the narrative of early modern women's history challenges many received assumptions about Europe and women in past times, and provides essential background for dealing with issues of diversity in the Europe of today.

Girl in the Curl

Girl in the Curl
Author: Andrea Gabbard
Publisher: Seal Press
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2000-12-08
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781580050487

Traces the achievements of female surfers and the impact they have had on the sport over the last one hundred years.

Women at the Wheel

Women at the Wheel
Author: Katherine J. Parkin
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2017-09-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 0812249534

Women at the Wheel explores women's historical experience with automobiles. Katherine Parkin argues that in every regard, from learning to drive to repairing cars, from being a passenger to taking the wheel, women had a distinct experience with cars in American culture.

People of the Century

People of the Century
Author: CBS News
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 456
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography
ISBN: 0684870932

The one hundred most influential people of the twentieth century, as selected by the editors of Time magazine and featured in a series of documentaries produced by CBS.