Women's Work
A series of four sessions devoted to the history of women's varied responses to the 20th century American workplace. Each session centers on a book selected by Corrine Carpenter, a graduate student in the History Department of the University of Rochester.

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The series opens with a discussion of "Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Women, The War, and Social Change" by Sherna Berger Gluck, an oral history of the life-changing experience of working in defense factories during the Second World War.
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This session focuses on Betty Freidan's landmark tract, "The Feminine Mystique," which helped launch the second wave of American feminism.
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A discussion of "The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home" by sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild, which examines two-career marriages and tensions between work and home in modern American life.
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The final session focuses on "Nickeled and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America," Barbara Ehrenreich's exploration of minimum wage work and its impact on American women's lives.
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