History of Women in the West

This is the fifth volume in the series on the history of women in the West, and it brings that history up to the present. It sets out to test a hard question: whether a century marked by wars and revolutions unprecedented in human history was also a good century for women.

The volume follows how the promises of freedom, parity with men and full participation in society were met, and how far they were met, as the twentieth century's transformations unfolded. The discussion places women's experience inside that larger context of social and political change.

The book is useful for students of women's history and social history, and for general readers who want a broad, well-grounded account of the period.

Bibliographic details: published by Belknap Press, with the ISBN-13 9780674403659.