ENGL 1302 - Charles Miller's class: Reference Books for Margaret Atwood

Fifty years ago, the average young couple married and had children before age thirty. Dad worked outside the home; Mom dedicated herself to child-rearing and housekeeping. If the couple could afford it, they lived in one of the new suburbs springing up like installed shrubbery around cities from coast to coast. Father Knows Best, here we come. But the 1950s vision of an ideal family is neither the first nor the last word in American marriage. In this fascinating new survey, historian Rebecca Price Janney traces changing mores and practices surrounding marriage and family life from colonial times until today. Along the way, she examines oft-overlooked communities-Native Americans, slaves, nineteenth-century immigrants, and others-all of whom have contributed to our nation's ongoing family drama. The resulting history is both messier-and more inspiring-than readers may expect. Book jacket.

This six-volume set, the latest offering from the Gale Critical Companion Collection, explores the history of women and feminism throughout literature, from classical antiquity to modern times. Topics covered include misogyny and women's social roles in ancient civilizations, 16th-century women's devotional literature, 17th- and 18th-century women's captivity narratives, the women's suffrage movement in 19th-century America, women writers of the Lost Generation, lesbian literature, modern feminist theory, criticism and scholarship and much more. Also included are detailed studies of prominent women writers, including Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz, Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Isabel Allende, Margaret Atwood, Doris Lessing, Adrienne Rich and many others. Three indexes - author, title and subject - help researchers find information across the set, making it easy to make connections and find related details. Feminism in Literature is the third set in the new Gale Critical Companion Collection which is designed to complement and extend the existing Literary Criticism Series. in literature and the humanities designed to meet the research needs of high school and undergraduate students.