num_pages: 544
description: Pulitzer prizewinner Carl Degler has written the first general history of women in America for our generation. The book brings into historical perspective one climactic How is woman's right to equality of opportunity going to be reconciled with the demands of the family? The modern family, Degler writes, has been shaped by women's search for greater autonomy within the family. "At Odds" shows how that evolution took place, beginning in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
language: English
title: At Odds: Women and the Family in America from the Revolution to the Present
titlecomplete: At Odds: Women and the Family in America from the Revolution to the Present (Galaxy Books)
genres: History
ratings_count: 19
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: History (Paperback)
publisher: Oxford University Press