Broken Patterns: Professional Women and the Quest for a New Feminine Identity, Second Edition

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Author: Anita M. Harris ISBN: 9781501473487
Publisher: Cambridge Common Press Publication: March 1, 2014
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Anita M. Harris
ISBN: 9781501473487
Publisher: Cambridge Common Press
Publication: March 1, 2014
Imprint:
Language: English

Broken Patterns, by award-winning journalist Anita M. Harris, places modern American professional women--and  their mothers and grandmothers--in remarkable historical context.  Based on interviews with 40 successful women who entered male-dominated careers in the 1970s and 1980s,  the book  outlines a "push-pull" pattern of generational and societal development going back to the Colonial period in America. 

Broken Patterns  will be of  interest to women at all career stages--including those about to enter the workplace-- because it shows how the experiences of mothers and grandmothers influence career decisions and lives. And it traces the impact of rapid technological and social change on family structures, psyches, and gender roles.

Unlike several new books arguing that women's quest for equality has stalled, Broken Patterns takes a hopeful view.  It suggests that progress is not linear, nor cyclic, but spiral.

"As individuals, as generations and as a society, Harris writes, "we  push forward toward a goal, reach an impasse, pull back  to retrieve and reintegrate aspects and values of the past  in order to move forward, once again."

The new edition includes stories of present day college students and recent graduates, a new preface and an afterword assessing how far women have come since Broken Patterns was originally published, in 1995.

NPR Reporter and author Margot Adler calls the book  "A splendid study of professional women."

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Broken Patterns, by award-winning journalist Anita M. Harris, places modern American professional women--and  their mothers and grandmothers--in remarkable historical context.  Based on interviews with 40 successful women who entered male-dominated careers in the 1970s and 1980s,  the book  outlines a "push-pull" pattern of generational and societal development going back to the Colonial period in America. 

Broken Patterns  will be of  interest to women at all career stages--including those about to enter the workplace-- because it shows how the experiences of mothers and grandmothers influence career decisions and lives. And it traces the impact of rapid technological and social change on family structures, psyches, and gender roles.

Unlike several new books arguing that women's quest for equality has stalled, Broken Patterns takes a hopeful view.  It suggests that progress is not linear, nor cyclic, but spiral.

"As individuals, as generations and as a society, Harris writes, "we  push forward toward a goal, reach an impasse, pull back  to retrieve and reintegrate aspects and values of the past  in order to move forward, once again."

The new edition includes stories of present day college students and recent graduates, a new preface and an afterword assessing how far women have come since Broken Patterns was originally published, in 1995.

NPR Reporter and author Margot Adler calls the book  "A splendid study of professional women."

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