{"product_id":"9780316071666","title":"When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present","description":"Gail Collins, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003ecolumnist and bestselling author, recounts the astounding revolution in women's lives over the past 50 years, with her usual \"sly wit and unfussy style\" (\u003cem\u003ePeople\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen Everything Changed\u003c\/i\u003e begins in 1960, when most American women had to get their husbands' permission to apply for a credit card. It ends in 2008 with Hillary Clinton's historic presidential campaign. This was a time of cataclysmic change, when, after four hundred years, expectations about the lives of American women were smashed in just a generation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA comprehensive mix of oral history and Gail Collins's keen research--covering politics, fashion, popular culture, economics, sex, families, and work--\u003ci\u003eWhen Everything Changed\u003c\/i\u003e is the definitive book on five crucial decades of progress. The enormous strides made since 1960 include the advent of the birth control pill, the end of \"Help Wanted--Male\" and \"Help Wanted--Female\" ads, and the lifting of quotas for women in admission to medical and law schools. Gail Collins describes what has happened in every realm of women's lives, partly through the testimonies of both those who made history and those who simply made their way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePicking up where her highly lauded book \u003ci\u003eAmerica's Women\u003c\/i\u003e left off, \u003ci\u003eWhen Everything Changed\u003c\/i\u003e is a dynamic story, told with the down-to-earth, amusing, and agenda-free tone for which this beloved \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ecolumnist is known. Older readers, men and women alike, will be startled as they are reminded of what their lives once were--\"Father Knows Best\" and \"My Little Margie\" on TV; daily weigh-ins for stewardesses; few female professors; no women in the Boston marathon, in combat zones, or in the police department. Younger readers will see their history in a rich new way. It has been an era packed with drama and dreams--some dashed and others realized beyond anyone's imagining.","brand":"Little, Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47163668103408,"sku":"9780316071666","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780316071666_p0.jpg?v=1769888927","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780316071666","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}