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Reading Between the Lines
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.


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.

This session focuses on Betty Freidan's landmark tract, "The Feminine Mystique," which helped launch the second wave of American feminism.

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.

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.