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Sex and manners : female emancipation in the West, 1890-2000
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ISBN: 1412929180 0803983697 1446222098 1446236293 1280370920 9786610370924 1412933870 9781412933872 9781412929189 9781446222096 9780803983694 9781446236291 9781280370922 6610370923 Year: 2004 Volume: *16 Publisher: London : SAGE,

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A cross-cultural study of manners, this text examines changing relationships between the sexes, with its focus on how women have asserted their social independence in American, British, Dutch & German society.


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A Feeling of Belonging : Asian American Women's Public Culture, 1930-1960
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ISBN: 0814765246 Year: 2005 Publisher: New York : NYU Press,

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When we imagine the activities of Asian American women in the mid-twentieth century, our first thoughts are not of skiing, beauty pageants, magazine reading, and sororities. Yet, Shirley Jennifer Lim argues, these are precisely the sorts of leisure practices many second generation Chinese, Filipina, and Japanese American women engaged in during this time. In A Feeling of Belonging , Lim highlights the cultural activities of young, predominantly unmarried Asian American women from 1930 to 1960. This period marks a crucial generation-the first in which American-born Asians formed a critical mass

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