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Article: Julia Kirk Blackwelder. Now Hiring: the Feminization of Work in the United States, 1900-1995.(Book Review)
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- Michigan Historical Review
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- March 22, 2001
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Julia Kirk Blackwelder. Now Hiring: The Feminization of Work in the United States, 1900-1995. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1997. Pp. 302. Illustrations. Index. Tables. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $17.95.
Julia Blackwelder tells her readers that the "contemporary backlash against working women in the United States and their rights to equity in employment generated the writing of this book." Taking a long view of women's work across the twentieth century, Blackwelder seeks to "let history speak for itself' (p. xiii). She argues that Americans have had an ongoing conflict between their idealized notions of womanhood and the realities of women's employment. ...