Representations of female identity in the U.S

This study explores the women’s rights movement in the U.S. at a time, the 1960s and 1970s, when great changes were taking place in the family and in the workforce where women were gaining ground. Social scientists and women novelists reported on these changes, offering visions of a world without gender inequality. Differences between views of marriage and family in “objective” social science and in “imaginative” women’s fiction are examined.