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Portraits of Change: Unparalleled Freedoms, Unanticipated Consequences
Author(s): Mary White Stewart (Author)
- Publisher: Hamilton Books
- Publication Date: 14 Dec. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 180 pages
- ISBN-10: 0761860371
- ISBN-13: 9780761860372
Book Description
Stewart follows four generations of women in her family from the turn of the last century to the present as they came of age, married, divorced, and grew old. She looks closely at these lives and wonders at both the hard-earned freedoms and the painful, unanticipated consequences of historic change.
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Review
As a scholar of family, gender, and identity, Stewart (sociology, U. of Nevada) sets her experiences and those of her family members in the context of changing female roles over a century of American life; but she did not write this book as an academic treatise (no references, bibliography, or index) but rather as a thoughtful personal history. Born in 1945, she was married and divorced three times, brought up children on her own, and became a college professor. As a young woman she had the wits and the drive to interview both of her grandmothers, and she incorporates their stories with her mother’s, her daughters’, and her own. The included family photos speak volumes.
About the Author
Mary White Stewart is a professor of sociology and the director of the School of Social Research and Justice Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno. She teaches in the areas of family, gender and identity, and gendered violence. Her previous books include Ordinary Violence: Everyday Assaults against Women and Silicone Spills: Breast Implants on Trial.
