Betty Ford

ISBN-10
143816498X
ISBN-13
9781438164984
Category
Federal government--United States--History
Language
English
Published
2015
Author
Dorothy Schneider

Description

During the women's movement of the 1960s and 1970s, many women in their 40s and 50s either recoiled from or gladly embraced the changes happening around them.

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