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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Defining Their Identity: The Changing Roles of Women in the Post-War Era as Documented by the Valley Times Newspaper

Defining Their Identity: The Changing Roles of Women in the Post-War Era as Documented by the Valley Times Newspaper

Picus, Joy
Rice, Christina

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General Photography

ISBN10: 0692702903
ISBN13: 9780692702901
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Apr 24 2016
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.44 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
The popular view of women in the years following World War II has come to be of homemakers like television's Donna Reed and June Cleaver who maintained picture perfect households in suburban settings. In many cases this was indeed the primary role assumed by women of the era, but it wasn't the only one. Women pursued advanced degrees, became professionals, held office, excelled in sports, fought for equal rights, and became civically involved, and often while running those households. The San Fernando Valley has come to exemplify the post-War suburban growth that took place throughout the country and the Valley Times newspaper was there to document this expansion along with the Valley's dynamic women in their various roles. Now, the exhibit and companion catalog, Defining Their Identity: The Changing Roles of Women in the Post-War Era, explores the changing roles of women through the lens of the Los Angeles Public Library's Valley Times' image archive.

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