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Gail Collins, New York Times columnist and bestselling author, recounts the astounding revolution in women's lives over the past 50 years, with her usual "sly wit and unfussy style" (People).
When Everything Changed begins in 1960, when most American women had to get their husbands' permission to apply for a credit card. It ends in 2008 with Hillary Clinton's historic presidential campaign. This was a time of cataclysmic change, when, after four hundred years, expectations about the lives of American women were smashed in just a generation.
A comprehensive mix of oral history and Gail Collins's keen research--covering politics, fashion, popular culture, economics, sex, families, and work--When Everything Changed is the definitive book on five crucial decades of progress. The enormous strides made since 1960 include the advent of the birth control pill, the end of "Help Wanted--Male" and "Help Wanted--Female" ads, and the lifting of quotas for women in admission to medical and law schools. Gail Collins describes what has happened in every realm of women's lives, partly through the testimonies of both those who made history and those who simply made their way.
Picking up where her highly lauded book America's Women left off, When Everything Changed is a dynamic story, told with the down-to-earth, amusing, and agenda-free tone for which this beloved New York Times columnist is known. Older readers, men and women alike, will be startled as they are reminded of what their lives once were--"Father Knows Best" and "My Little Margie" on TV; daily weigh-ins for stewardesses; few female professors; no women in the Boston marathon, in combat zones, or in the police department. Younger readers will see their history in a rich new way. It has been an era packed with drama and dreams--some dashed and others realized beyond anyone's imagining.
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By Kim Mundell (New Zealand)
A great read - intellectually stimulating and enjoyable at the same time. It brought back forgotten memories of blatant sexism encountered in the 70s and 80s - before I was old enough to recognise it fully. A good reminder that we can't be complacent about equality for women. There is too much in here that still resonates today.
By Older & Wiser (New York, NY)
"When Everything Changed" is encyclopedic, if the encyclopedia were narrated by your best friend who knew all the subjects personally. Organized chronologically, in brief profiles and anecdotes, this book reveals history bit by bit. You'll find yourself smiling in recognition, and more than occasionally outraged by the events of the very recent past.
By Chrissi R. Nimmo (Tahlequah, OK)
I am almost 30, a lawyer, married, no kids - this book was fantastic and represented different viewpoints. It makes me proud to be a feminist and reminds that there is still a fight! I loved the arrangement of short stories and the chronological approach. I read it slowly, made notes and copied quotes! I have loaned my copy to a friend, bought two copies for gifts and recommend it to everyone woman I know 18-80!
Even though I have a Kindle, I bought the hardback, and am glad I did!
By H. Bill (Columbus, OH USA)
For those of us too old to have had the option of a Women's Studies class in college, this book gives a great overview of times we lived through! It reminded me of slights, problems and prohibitions that I had forgotten. I intend to pass it on to my daughters AFTER I have written a few comments (such as "Yes, this happened to me!" or "Yes, this happened to someone I knew!'). We have "come a long way, baby!", but it is important not to forget how long and hard the road was!
By Margo Jarosz (Chicago)
This book hit very close to home to me, as I identified with so many of the women Ms. Collins interviewed. Not just the fascinating stories, but the broad sweep of history in the woman's movement from 1960 to the present. From my 60's childhood, to coming of age during the early days of "libbers" (the name I recall hearing most often), the sweeping changes of the 70's, the having it all '80's, through the reality of the 90's and today.
As I sat there and pondered what it all meant as witness and participant, Ms. Collins summed it up for me in the final paragraph: " . . . But women did not figure out how to keep marriage from crumbling into divorce, and they were not particularly successful in making their lovers grow into dependable husbands. They had not remade the world the way the revolutionaries had hoped. But they had created a world their female ancestors did not even have the opportunity to imagine."
One minor issue: I would have preferred the biographical information about the women interviewed at the beginning of the book, not the end. I honestly couldn't keep their names and stories straight.
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