Social and Cultural History of American Womanhood

FAIN: FT-11752-73

Mary P. Ryan
SUNY Research Foundation, Binghamton (Binghamton, NY 13902-4400)

To examine the reactions of individual women to the typologies of feminity which prevailed during their lifetimes in order to evaluate the evolution of the specialize role of American women including its functional relationship to successive stages of economic development and the various cultural devices which escorted masses of women into the segregated places in American history.