"... explores the historical role and influence of protective legislation for American women workers, both as a step toward modern labor standards and as a barrier to equal rights"
"... this book synthesises competing explanations of women's rights and rigorously tests the implications of cultural, international norms-building and core rights explanations across nationality, political, reproductive, and property rights."
"A popular BuzzFeed columnist examines the phenomenon of popular provocative womanhood to discuss the rise of such counterculture stars as Amy Schumer, Nicki Minaj, and Caitlyn Jenner, exploring why they are popular in spite of nonconforming behaviors."
"Rhode, the director of the Stanford Center on the Legal Profession, examines the progress women in the United States have made toward gender equality and of the problems that still must be addressed."
Tells how American women got from there to here, in politics, fashion, economics, sex, families and work in the past five decades.
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