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Powell's Q&A, Q&A | October 16, 2009

Powell's Q&A: Gail Collins

1 comment By Gail Collins

[My new book] starts in 1960 with a woman named Lois Rabinowitz, who was evicted from Manhattan traffic court for attempting to pay a parking ticket while wearing slacks. This was... Continue »

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   When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present

   Gail Collins

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nancystocker, December 7, 2006 (view all comments by nancystocker)
I read this book in hardback a while ago and find myself constantly referring to it in conversations with friends and family. My copy has been, "borrowed," so I'm looking for another for me, and another to give.

The theme of my family stories was that education, especially for women, is extremely important for themselves and their family and should be a goal worth pursuing despite great difficulty.

My father's mother, raised on a farm in the early 1900's and one of many children, obtained her degree at Cornell College, IA. My mother's grandfather had to teach himself to read, growing up on a pioneer western Wyoming ranch (1870s). As a result he assured that my mother and uncle rode their horses to a one-room school in any kind of miserable weather...and over the continental divide(1920s). At the age of twelve, my mother was boarded to relatives in the city. When she was ready to go to college, the depression had affected her family, as so many others, and a half-uncle stepped in to fund her University plus master's degree.

I highly recommend this book for anyone wanting to better understand their family history and their interaction with it.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780140119770

Subtitle:

How Family Stories Shape Us

Author:

Stone, Elizabeth

Publisher:

Penguin (Non-Classics)

Location:

New York, N.Y., U.S.A. :

Subject:

General

Subject:

Family Relationships

Subject:

United states

Subject:

Family

Subject:

Genealogy

Subject:

Sociology - Marriage & Family

Subject:

Sociology

Subject:

Sociology, anthropology and archaeology

Subject:

Folklore

Subject:

Marriage and family

Subject:

Tales

Subject:

United States Social life and customs.

Subject:

United States Genealogy Folklore.

Subject:

General Social Science

Copyright:

1988

Edition Description:

Bibliography: p. 245-254.

Series Volume:

8. rµkke, IX

Publication Date:

1989

Binding:

Paperback

Grade Level:

General/trade

Language:

English

Illustrations:

Yes

Pages:

272

Dimensions:

7.73x5.05x.55 in. .41 lbs.