Circles and Settings: Role Changes of American Women (Gender and Society

by Helena Znaniecka Lopata

Circles and Settings: Role Changes of American Women is an original, comprehensive analysis of changing roles of American women at a time of great upheaval and public, as well as social science, commentary. Using a symbolic interactionist framework, with role seen as a set of negotiated relations, Lopata analyses the roles of wife, mother, kin member (daughter, sister, grandmother) homemaker, job holder in different settings, as well as friend, neighbor, volunteer, and activist. This book comprehensively pulls together all the major involvements of American women using both historical and comparative perspectives to show the evolution of these roles over the last century.

325 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1994

About the author

Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Loyola University Chicago.