Abstract: "...author Caroline Bird tells the story of the extraordinary women who sought and found ways to succeed in an economic world made by and for men."

Abstract: "...selection of source readings explores the varied experience of American women in the marketplace before the impact of the Great Depression and World War II."

Abstract: Cherry examines contrasting theories of discrimination and applies them to contemporary issues that affect blacks, women and Jews.

Abstract: "Why is the median income of men almost twice that of women? Who really controls the purse strings? Why have women been kept from understanding and participating in economics and power in the United States?"

Abstract: "Charlotte Gilman became the leading intellectual in the women's movement in the United States during the first two decades of the twentieth century. The Nation went to far as to pronounce Women and Economics 'the most significant utterance on the subject of women since Mill's Subjection of Woman'..."

Abstract: "A comprehensive introduction to gender roles in a sociological context, this book offers a solid basis for understanding concepts such as gender, culture, socialization, social control, and stratification."

Abstract: "...the American West has a history grounded in primary economic reality - in hardheaded questions of profit, loss, competition, and consolidation."

Abstract: "It details and critically analyzes what is known at present about social services for children and families, e.g., adoption services, foster care, services to the abused and neglected, and family support programs."

Abstract: "Carmen Santana: a sexy, gutsy woman...her four husbands...her nine children and their husbands, wives, and offspring: they grope their way through the world of poverty, ignorance, and good times on the slum streets of New York."

Abstract: "...the welfare mothers of America tell what poverty is really like: how it feels to be subjected to the indignities and dehumanization of the welfare system... how billions of 'war on poverty' dollars never reach the poor at all..."

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