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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Daughters of A Revolution—Young Women Today
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Front Matter
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American Women Today: A Statistical Portrait
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Front Matter
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Women in Congress
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Front Matter
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About this book
Reviews
'The content, the organization, and the graphics are all clear and precise...' - Library Journal
'...a user-friendly resource recommended for all libraries.' - R.L. Chamberlin, Library Journal
'...the best consistent ready reference resource I know of for basic statistics on U.S. women.' - Phyllis Holman Weisbard, Feminist Collections
'...presents important, useful data and special statistical analyses that illuminate demographics and key trends...Essential (the entire series).' - J. Ariel, Choice
'...the book provides the reader with comprehensive and well-presented information about the lives of this cohort of young women, and anyone interested in learning about defined aspects of these lives would be well advised to consult this work. - Youth and Policy
Editors and Affiliations
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Women’s Research and Education Institute, USA
Cynthia B. Costello, Vanessa R. Wight, Anne J. Stone
About the editors
VANESSA R. WIGHT is research associate at the WREI. She has worked on the previous edition of The American Woman and is coeditor of this edition in the series. In addition, she contributes to WREI's Women in the Military and Hire a Vet projects and has co-authored the third edition of Women in the Military: Where They Stand. Ms. Wight holds a bachelor's degree in anthropology and religious studies from the University of Rochester and a master's degree in anthropology from the George Washington University. Ms. Wight lives in Kensington, M.D. with her husband Nicholas Curabba.
ANNE J. STONE is senior research associate at WREI, where she has authored or co-authored policy analyses on various subjects, including women's employment, women in the military, and the economic situation of older women. She has worked on all eight previous editions of The American Woman, and co-edited the 4th, 5th, 7th, and 8th, as well as this 9th edition. Ms. Stone lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband Herbert Stone. They have two daughters and two granddaughters.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The American Woman, 2003-2004
Book Subtitle: Daughters of a Revolution: Young Women Today
Editors: Cynthia B. Costello, Vanessa R. Wight, Anne J. Stone
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-11600-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2002
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-29551-6Published: 07 March 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-312-29549-3Published: 07 March 2003
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-11600-0Published: 30 April 2016
Edition Number: 9
Number of Pages: XVII, 399
Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary