DOC To Ask for an Equal Chance: African Americans in the Great Depression (The African American History Series) by Cheryl Lynn Greenberg in History

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As recently as 1960 few women worked outside the home; married women could not borrow money in their own names; schools imposed strict quotas on female applicants; and sexual harassment did not exist as a legal concept. In Tidal Wave; Sara M. Evans; one of our foremost historians of women in America; draws on an extraordinary range of interviews; archives; and published sources to tell for the first time the incredible story of the past forty years in women's history. Encompassing the so-called Second Wave of feminism (1960s and 1970s) and the Third Wave (1980s and 1990s); Evans challenges traditional interpretations of women's history at every turn. Covering politics; economics; popular culture; marriage; and family; and including the perspectives of women ranging from leaders of NOW to little-known women who simply wanted more out of their lives; Tidal Wave paints a vast canvas of a society in upheaval. The movement's shocking success is evinced; Evans notes; by the simple fact that we now live in a country in which all women are feminists; in practice if not in name.