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At Odds: Women and the Family in America from the Revolution to the Present

Carl N. Degler

Pulitzer prizewinner Carl Degler has written the first general history of women in America for our generation. The book brings into historical perspective one climactic question: How is woman's right to equality of opportunity going to be reconciled with the demands of the family? The modern family, Degler writes, has been shaped by women's search for greater autonomy within the family. "At Odds" shows how that evolution took place, beginning in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Gender & SexualityGender & Sexuality · medium confidenceGender & Sexuality81 signalsLlm Classifier: Gender & Sexuality -> Gender & SexualityGoogle Books: History -> HistoryKeyword Classifier: Gender & Sexuality -> Gender & SexualityGender & FeminismReproductive Rights & Family PolicyFamily, Childhood & Adoption

Award History

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AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
National Book Award for History PaperbackMajor1982FinalistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    The modern American family has been shaped by women’s search for greater autonomy within the family, and this evolution reconciles (or conflicts with) women’s equality-of-opportunity rights with family demands.

    Model confidence 66%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    65 / 100 academic

    Academic

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 74%.