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Barren in the Promised Land: Childless Americans and the Pursuit of Happiness
ISBN: 9780674061828 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Chronicling the shifts in public attitudes towards reproduction, this book traces attitudes from colonial times to the 1990s. In colonial days barrenness was associated with sin, from here the progression is traced to the laws of compulsory sterilization in the early twentieth century, the baby craze of the 1950s, the rise in voluntary childlessness in the 1990s, and the increasing reliance on reproductive technologies. The author reveals the intersection between public life and the most private part of life - sexuality, procreation, and the family.
Chronicling the shifts in public attitudes towards reproduction, this book traces attitudes from colonial times to the 1990s. In colonial days barrenn...
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147,15 zł |
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Great Expectations: Marriage and Divorce in Post-Victorian America
ISBN: 9780226511702 / Angielski / Miękka / 1983 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the divorce rate in the United States rose by a staggering 2,000 percent. To understand this dramatic rise, Elaine Tyler May studied over one thousand detailed divorce cases. She found that contrary to common assumptions, divorce was not simply a by-product of women's increasing economic and sexual independence, or a rebellion against marriage. Rather, thwarted hopes for fulfillment in the public sphere drove both men and women to wed at a greater rate and to bring higher expectations to their marriages.
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the divorce rate in the United States rose by a staggering 2,000 percent. To understand this...
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131,04 zł |
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Fortress America: How We Embraced Fear and Abandoned Democracy
ISBN: 9781541646520 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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97,99 zł |
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America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation
ISBN: 9780465024599 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 1960, the FDA approved the contraceptive commonly known as "the pill." Advocates, developers, and manufacturers believed that the convenient new drug would put an end to unwanted pregnancy, ensure happy marriages, and even eradicate poverty. But as renowned historian Elaine Tyler May reveals in America and the Pill, it was women who embraced it and created change. They used the pill to challenge the authority of doctors, pharmaceutical companies, and lawmakers. They demonstrated that the pill was about much more than family planning--it offered women control over their bodies and...
In 1960, the FDA approved the contraceptive commonly known as "the pill." Advocates, developers, and manufacturers believed that the convenient new dr...
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69,34 zł |
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Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
ISBN: 9780465064649 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A revised and expanded edition of the classic, myth-shattering exploration of American family life during the Cold War
A revised and expanded edition of the classic, myth-shattering exploration of American family life during the Cold War
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103,76 zł |
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Tell Me True: Memoir, History & Writing a Life
ISBN: 9780873518154 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this landmark collection, Patricia Hampl and Elaine Tyler May have gathered fourteen original essays from award-winning memoirists and historians. They are all storytellers, wrestling with a fascinating gray area where memory intersects with history and where the necessities of narrative collide with mundane facts. and whether the record emerges from archival sources or from personal memory, these writers show how to make the leap to telling a good story--while also telling us true.
"reading each of these superb and provocative essays, readers understand history in the memoir... In this landmark collection, Patricia Hampl and Elaine Tyler May have gathered fourteen original essays from award-winning memoirists and historians. ...
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97,79 zł |
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Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe V. Wade
ISBN: 9781138147140 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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700,25 zł |
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