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Title

American women in the nineties : today's critical issues / edited with an introduction by Sherri Matteo.

Publication

Boston : Northeastern University Press, c1993.

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Additional Authors

• Adler, Nancy E.
• AlRoy, Carolyn.
• Bailey, Susan McGee.
• Burbridge, Lynn C.
• Mandel, Ruth B.
• Marx, Fern.
• Matteo, Sherri Marie, 1951-
• McIntosh, Peggy.
• O'Leary, Ann.
• Pasupathi, Monisha.
• Pearce, Diana
• Rhode, Deborah L.
• Riger, Stephanie.
• Suarez-Al-Adam, Mariana.
• Tschann, Jeanne M.

Description

viii, 327 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Subjects

• Women > Health and hygiene > United States
• Women > United States > Social conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Toward a woman-friendly new world order / Kathleen B. Jones -- The political woman / Ruth B. Mandel -- Women of a certain age / Laura L. Carstensen and Monisha Pasupathi -- Something old, something new : women's poverty in the 1990s / Diana M. Pearce -- Poorer and sicker : legacies of the 1980s, lessons for the 1990s / Diana B. Dutton -- Health issues for women in the 1990s / Iris F. Litt -- some political implications of the Stanford studies of homeless families / Sanford M. Dornbusch -- Women and AIDS / Ann O'Leary ... [et al.] -- The abortion debate : psychological issues for adult women and adolescents / Nancy E. Adler and Jeanne M. Tschann -- Gender dilemmas in sexual harassment : policies and procedures / Stephanie Riger -- The politics of pornography / Madeleine Kahn -- Gender equality and employment policy / Deborah L. Rhode -- Girls, gender, and schools : excerpts farom the AAUW Report : how schools shortchange girls / Susan McGee Bailey ... [et al.].

ISBN

• 1555531504 (alk paper) :
• 1555531512 (pbk.) :

LCCN

^^^92046574^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library