The women's movement : political, socioeconomic, and psychological issues / Barbara Sinclair Deckard.

New York : Harper & Row, Publishers, [1983]

xii, 500 pages ; 21 cm

Third edition.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-478) and index.

American women today -- Introduction: sexual stereotypes as political ideology -- The nature of woman: psychological theories -- The self-fulfilling prophecy: sex role socialization -- The family: refuge or prison? -- The exploitation of working women -- Professional women: the obstacle course -- Women and the law -- Women's place throughout history -- Women's place: from hunting and gathering societies to capitalism -- Women in the contemporary world -- A century of struggle: American women, 1820-1920 -- Forty years in the desert: American women, 1920-1960 -- The new struggle for liberation: American women, 1960 to the present -- Current issues of the women's movement -- Theories of women's liberation.