The American Woman 2003-2004
Subtitle: Daughters of a Revolution - Young Women Today
Contributors: Cynthia B. Costello (Editor); Vanessa R. Wight (Editor); Anne J. Stone (Editor)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: January 17, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780312295516
Subjects: American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Social research & statistics; Women's studies; 21st century; Social Science; Sociology; USA; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Sociology - General; Women's Studies - General; Social Science / Gender Studies; Gender Studies; 1980-; Social conditions; United States; Young women
First sentence: WITH A WRY SMILE, Ms. Nisanci, who handles tax and trade issues for a corporate government affairs office, captured in a sentence the dilemma of millions of her contemporaries-and the reason why WREI wanted America's young women to have center stage in this book, the first in the American Woman series to examine the status of women in a particular age group at a particular time in history.
Description: "Focuses on young women between the ages of 25 and 34. Contributors ... explore the opportunities and challenges confronting the young women who are daughters of the baby boom generation ... [A]lso contains ... statistical portrait of women of all ages, including user-friendly tables and figures"--Page 4 of cover.