Synopses & Reviews
As the Victorian era drew to a close, American culture experienced a vast transformation. In many ways, the culture changed even more rapidly and profoundly for women. The "new woman," the "new freedom," and the "sexual revolution" all referred to women moving out of the Victorian home and into the public realm that men had long claimed as their own.
Modern middle-class women made a distinction between emotional styles that they considered Victorian and those they considered modern. They expected fulfillment in marriage, companionship, and career, and actively sought up-to-date versions of love and happiness, relieved that they lived in an age free from taboo and prudery.
Drawing on the diaries, letters, and memoirs of women from a wide range of backgrounds and geographic regions, this volume offers insights into middle-class women's experiences of American culture in this age of transition. It documents the ways in which that culture--including new technologies, advertising, and movies--shaped women's emotional lives and how these women appropriated the new messages and ideals. In addition, the authors describe the difficulties that women encountered when emotional experiences failed to match cultural expectations.
Review
"...[a] compelling book that is extremely relevant to our own times."-The Journal of American History,June 2002
Review
"The most comprehensive book ever to appear on unemployment in the United States." -George Gilder,author of Wealth and Poverty
Review
"A triple hit: an engaging narrative of a century of U.S. economic history . . . an attack on the mythology that high wage rates and government spending reduce unemployment and a critique on wrong-headed public policies since 1930 that have raised unemployment levels."-Anna J. Schwartz,National Bureau of Economic Research
Review
"Vedder and Gallaway show convincingly that we need once again to rethink our entire notion of unemployment." -Jonathan R. T. Hughes,Northwestern University
Review
"A book of great interest."-Kenneth Boulding,
Synopsis
Redefining the way we think about unemployment in America today, Out of Work offers devastating evidence that the major cause of high unemployment in the United States is the government itself.
An Independent Institute Book
About the Author
A Distinguished Professor of Economics and Faculty Associate at the Contemporary History Institute of Ohio University, Richard K. Vedder is the author of numerous books and articles.
Lowell E. Galloway is Distinguished Professor of Economics at Ohio University and a former staff economist on the Joint Economic Committee of the United States Congress. Both authors are Research Fellows at the Independent Institute in Oakland, California.
Table of Contents
Self and emotion in the early twentieth century -- Flaming youth -- The single woman -- The flapper wife -- The silver cord -- The fountain.