Gail Collins – författare
Visar alla böcker från författaren Gail Collins. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
6 produkter
6 produkter
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
172 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
278 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
206 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
101 kr
Skickas
"You're not getting older, you're getting better," or so promised the famous 1970's ad--for women's hair dye. Americans have always had a complicated relationship with aging: embrace it, deny it, defer it--and women have been on the front lines of the battle, willingly or not.In her lively social history of American women and aging, acclaimed New York Times columnist Gail Collins illustrates the ways in which age is an arbitrary concept that has swung back and forth over the centuries. From Plymouth Rock (when a woman was considered marriageable if "civil and under fifty years of age"), to a few generations later, when they were quietly retired to elderdom once they had passed the optimum age for reproduction, to recent decades when freedom from striving in the workplace and caretaking at home is often celebrated, to the first female nominee for president, American attitudes towards age have been a moving target. Gail Collins gives women reason to expect the best of their golden years.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
281 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
147 kr
Tillfälligt slut
As Texas Goes . . . provides a trenchant yet often hilarious look into American politics and the disproportional influence of Texas, which has become the model for not just the Tea Party but also the Republican Party. Now with an expanded introduction and a new concluding chapter that will assess the influence of the Texas way of thinking on the 2012 election, Collins shows how the presidential race devolved into a clash between the so-called “empty places” and the crowded places that became a central theme in her book. The expanded edition will also feature more examples of the Texas style, such as Governor Rick Perry’s nearsighted refusal to accept federal Medicaid funding as well as the proposed ban on teaching “critical thinking” in the classroom. As Texas Goes . . . will prove to be even more relevant to American politics by the dawn of a new political era in January 2013.