Juggling

A Memoir of Work, Family, and Feminism

Author: Jane S. Gould
ISBN: 9781558611733

   In the early 1950s, Jane Gould's life resembled that of many middle-class women of her generation. Despite the rewards of marriage and mothering, Gould found herself plagued by a deepening sense that "something was missing." For Gould this feeling was not an epitaph but an inspiration-the beginning of a personal, political, and professional journey that would help to transform women's lives and earn her a permanent place in contemporary women's history.    First at the Alumnae Advisory Center and then as director of the Barnard Placement and Career Planning Office, Gould helped to reshape perceptions about women and work. A pioneer in the middle-class return-to-work movement, she established women's career networks and developed programs to help women define their personal and professional goals and negotiate-or "juggle"-the demands of career and family. She brought to these challenges a compassion born of personal experience, as she struggled to balance her increasingly absor

Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
Publish Date: 1997-01

Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Women, Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Social Science / Women's Studies

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