Ms. and the material girls : perceptions of women from the 1970s through the 1990s / Catherine Gourley.

Who were the women who called themselves "Ms." and who were the Material Girls? They weren't specific individuals, but rather symbols that defined perceptions of women during the 1970s through the 1990s. The term Ms. was adopted by feminists--women who believed in equal pay for equal work, freedom f...

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Uniform Title:Images and issues of women in the twentieth century ; v. 5.
Main Author: Gourley, Catherine, 1950-
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis, MN : Twenty-First Century Books, [2008], ©2008.
Series:Images and issues of women in the twentieth century ; v. 5.
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MSU: In dust jacket.
Physical Description:144 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Prologue: The women's strike for equality, August 26, 1970 -- Who took the "r" out of "Mrs."? -- Bionic women and real-life heroines -- From denial to indulgence : the body obsession -- The material world, or welcome to the 1980s -- Guerrilla girls and other militant females march into the 1990s -- Epilogue: The girl power revolution. 
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