Women Between Two Worlds: Midlife Reflections on Work and Family
Author(s): Myra Dinnerstein (Author)
- Publisher: Temple University Press
- Publication Date: January 14, 1992
- Language: English
- Print length: 223 pages
- ISBN-10: 087722885X
- ISBN-13: 9780877228851
Book Description
Middle-class women born between 1936 and 1944 have been split between two worlds. As they were growing up, traditional expectations and limited opportunities seemed to make marriage and motherhood inevitable choices. When they reached their thirties, the Women’s Movement and expanding opportunities in the workplace presented options for them that had not been available to their mothers. Now it was considered appropriate for women to have ambitions and to act on themand the women described in this book were among those who did.
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