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Product Description: Many think of America in the 1950s as our last happy decade, with every family just like the one in "Leave it to Beaver" and every woman living just like Donna Reed. In fact, it was a time of great fear, especially for women, and especially the fear of not fitting in...read more
Hardcover:
9780060162795, titled "The Fifties: A Women's Oral History" | Harpercollins, April 1, 1993, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Features first-person accounts of what life was like for women in the 1950s, describing what popular culture told them, how they felt to leave college for marriage, the importance of virginity, and other issues
Paperback:
9780595229598, titled "The Fifties: A Women's Oral History" | Iuniverse Inc, August 1, 2002, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Many think of America in the 1950s as our last happy decade, with every family just like the one in "Leave it to Beaver" and every woman living just like Donna Reed.
9780060924614, titled "The Fifties: A Women's Oral History" | Reprint edition (Perennial, April 1, 1994), cover price $13.00 | also contains Resentment and the "Feminine" in Nietzche's Politico-Aesthetics | About this edition: Harvey, a frequent Village Voice contributor, independent publicist, radio programmer, and active feminist, provides dramatic and revealing first-person stories from women growing up in the '50s--a time when lifestyle choices were narrow and second-class citizenship was all that was available for women.
Library:
9780805029994 | Twenty First Century Books, April 1, 1995, cover price $25.26 | About this edition: Describes the lifestyles and hardships of the farming families who traveled to the frontier with hopes of free land, rich soil, and a better life
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9780823411726, titled "Cassie's Journey: Going West in the 1860s" | Reprint edition (Holiday House, April 1, 1995), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: A young girl narrates an account of her family's journey westward from Illinois to California during the 1860s
School and Library:
9780823406845 | Holiday House, April 1, 1988, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A young girl narrates an account of her family's journey westward from Illinois to California during the 1860s
Paperback:
9780823410644 | Reprint edition (Holiday House, September 1, 1993), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Christmas promises to be very different from a Christmas back in Maine, when a blizzard hits while Papa is out searching for a tree, Elenore experiences a Christmas whe will never forget
School and Library:
9780823408276 | Holiday House, October 1, 1990, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Christmas promises to be very different from a Christmas back in Maine, when a blizzard hits while Papa is out searching for a tree, Elenore experiences a Christmas whe will never forget
Paperback:
9780823410286 | Reprint edition (Holiday House, March 1, 1993), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: A recreation of pioneer life on the prairies of the Dakotas during the late-nineteenth century follows the experiences of nine-year-old Elenore Plaisted and her family as they leave Maine to become homesteaders in the West
School and Library:
9780823406043 | Holiday House, September 1, 1986, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A recreation of pioneer life on the prairies of the Dakotas during the late-nineteenth century follows the experiences of nine-year-old Elenore Plaisted and her family as they leave Maine to become homesteaders in the West
School and Library:
9780823406388 | Holiday House, March 1, 1987, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Becky, whose family has emigrated from Russia to avoid being persecuted as Jews, finds growing up in New York City in 1910 a vivid and exciting experience.
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