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(0)Catherine Gourley
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
IG 920L
Language
English
Description
An in-depth look at life for girls and women in America in 1904, discussing city and town life, social reform, new inventions, amusements, and more.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
IG 890L
Language
English
Description
Provides an in-depth look at daily life and historical events in the American colonies during the Revolutionary War, including home life, work, medicine, and play.
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
A biography of the engineer and industrialist whose innovative methods enabled his company to build and mass-produce reliable and inexpensive automobiles and whose latter years were devoted to establishing a museum reflecting American life before the advent of machines.
7) Good girl work: factories, sweatshops, and how women changed their role in the American workforce
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
Discusses the girls and women in the industrial workforce of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the reforms and movements that changed their working conditions and the nature of the work itself.
Author
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Profiles nineteenth-century women who overcame the disadvantage of being female in order to change the society in which they lived, by promoting temperance, child labor laws, health care, and other causes.
Author
Series
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Looks at the role of women in postwar America, discussing the common perceptions of women at the time--including flappers and housewives--and illustrating how they were reflected in the magazines, catalogs, and films of the time.
Author
Series
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Looks at the roles of American women in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s in the feminist movement, in the workplace, the family, and sports, and in the stereotypes in the magazines, television shows, and films of the time.
Author
Series
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Looks at the roles of American women at the turn of the century as seen in the stereotypes of the sophisticated and fashionable Gibson girl and the strong-minded suffragists and illustrates how they were reflected in the magazines, television shows, and films of the time.
Author
Series
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Looks at the roles of American women in the 1950s and 1960s seen in the stereotypes of the attractive, attentive housewife and the educated working woman and illustrates how they were reflected in the magazines, television shows, and films of the time.
Author
Series
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The jubilance of the Roaring Twenties was silenced by the stock market crash of 1929. Now the Great Depression challenged women in their homes, as Mrs. America had to learn how to "make do" with less. And as men left for battle fronts, World War II propelled women to take their place in factories, becoming Rosie the Riveter. As girls and women of the 1930s and 1940s searched for their own identities, the media of the times tried to influence their...
