Calling all Feminists: When Everything Changed

[Valerie Russo]

If you would like to learn about women's history, especially recently - then you might like to review this book: WHEN EVERYTHING CHANGED: The Amazing Journey of American Women from... by Gail Collins

Picking up where her previous successful, and highly lauded book, America's Women, left off, Gail Collins recounts the sea change women have experienced since 1960. A comprehensive mix of oral history and Collins's keen research, this is the definitive book about five crucial decades of progress, told with the down-to-earth, amusing, and agenda-free tone this beloved New York Times columnist is known for.

The interviews with women who have lived through these transformative years include an advertising executive in the 60s who was not allowed to attend board meetings that took place in the all-male dining room; and an airline stewardess who remembered being required to bend over to light her passengers' cigars on the men-only 'Executive Flight' from New York to Chicago.

We, too, may have forgotten the enormous strides made by women since 1960--and the rare setbacks. "Hell yes, we have a quota [7%]" said a medical school dean in 1961. "We do keep women out, when we can." At a pre-graduation party at Barnard College, "they handed corsages to the girls who were engaged and lemons to those who weren't."

In 1960, two-thirds of women 18-60 surveyed by Gallup didn't approve of the idea of a female president. Until 1972, no woman ran in the Boston Marathon, the year when Title IX passed, requiring parity for boys and girls in school athletic programs (and also the year after Nixon vetoed the childcare legislation passed by congress).

What happened during the past fifty years--a period that led to the first woman's winning a Presidential Primary--and why? The cataclysmic change in the lives of American women is a story Gail Collins seems to have been born to tell.

If you would like to review WHEN EVERYTHING CHANGED, please reply here:http://tinyurl.com/wheneverythingchanged

[Wayne Hurlbert]

My history book review of When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present by Gail Collins.

[Shellie @ Layers of Thought]

FYI - Tried to sign up but the form has been disabled.

[Freda Mans]

My review for When Everything Changed, is here: http://fredasvoice.blogspot.com/2009/10/when-everything-changed-jou...

[Jacqui Stewart]

I tried to sign up, but the form was disabled as well. If you are still looking for reviewers, I would be very interested.

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Thanks!

[Gina]

Just received my book! =0)

[Sharla Winterbottom]

I would LOVE to read and review this book. If that's still possible, please let me know. Thanks!

[Wisteria]

Valerie...I would like to review this book. Is it too late? I have done a lot of reading on this topic. Thanks, Wisteria
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[Karen Haney]

My review of WHEN EVERYTHING CHANGED is here on BOOKIN' WITH BINGO.

[nicole henke]

read my review here:

http://blesstheirheartsmom.blogspot.com/2009/10/book-review-when-ev...

[Sheila DeChantal]

ooh - thought I signed up for this but maybe I didnt - see now it is closed. Look forward to the reviews! :)