Images of women in 20th-century american literature and culture : female emancipation and changing gender roles in the age of innocence, breakfast at tiffany's and sex and the city

The 20th century has seen much progression concerning women and their sta- tus within American society. Tired of being reduced to the sphere of the home where they were primarily valued as mothers and wives, women have, since the beginning of the new century, more and more entered the public sphere...