Explores the social, historical, economic and psychological forces which have molded the traditional role of women

Product Description: In this refreshing study of the role of women in our society, Elizabeth Janeway uses information from historians, sociologists, psychoanalysts and anthropologists. She finds that the idea of women as household drudges is barely three centuries old and, worse, confined largely to the middle class...read more

New York Times articles published between 1900 and the present reveal changes that have occurred in societal attitudes about the behavior, responsibilities, and worth of women

Product Description: Women on Campus is a collection of compelling essays from the staff of Change, the foremost monthly magazine on American higher learning. This widely praised collec-tion of essays on the feminist struggle for greater participation in American academic life presents a portrait that was rarely reflected in the academic journals...read more

An account of the explorations of Eric the Red and his son, Leif Ericson, in the New World, 500 years before Columbus.

A respected feminist writer focuses on women as an example of a powerless class in an investigation of the workings of power that examines regions of human experience ranging from infancy to concentration-camp horrors

A selection of essays by one of America's leading social commentators includes an article of women's literature since 1945, a paper on the women's movement, and reflection on the changing American society

The story of three Brooklyn siblings who must make the transition to independent adult life during the depression years

Product Description: Women on Campus is a collection of compelling essays from the staff of Change, the foremost monthly magazine on American higher learning. This widely praised collec-tion of essays on the feminist struggle for greater participation in American academic life presents a portrait that was rarely reflected in the academic journals...read more