"When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present"

          The book, "When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women From 1960 to the Present," by Gail Collins, focuses on women and how they began to fight against sexism and sex discrimination; how they started to realize that they were not happy with the lives they were living as homemakers and housewives. They wanted something more. They wanted to experience more than just marriage and children and chores. They wanted what only men could have and the women were definitely not happy about that. So some women started to get together and talk about how they felt and what they wanted to do.

          While reading this book, I started really thinking about the main issue being informed about, and I thought about the social inquiry questions we've been learning about in class. So I asked myself: Whose perspective is missing? (Also, keep in mind that I have still not finished the book, so my answers could, and will most likely, change.) In my book, so far, I feel that the black woman's perspective is missing; and maybe also black man's perspective. They have been mentioned a bit, but I haven't heard from them directly. I've mostly been hearing about the white male and female perspective. What is the effect on the story of having that side excluded? Well, we don't get the whole view if we don't have a black male/female point of view. They were also a big part of the movement. But once again, I just think I haven't gotten up to that part yet (hopefully...). The Message: Which type is it? It is a "bearing witness" message because it talks about the history/past of the women's rights [movements]/feminism and how they got here today. Is justice served? Not really, because women today still struggle to be [seen] as equal to men. But there has definitely been a lot of progress, which is wonderful! Who blocks justice? Men and the government block justice. Because it's mostly men that affect the government's decision (because they rank higher) and then the government makes the final decision.

          In conclusion, so far, in the book "When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present," a black male/female perspective is missing (and their perspective is quite important!), it is a "bearing witness"—it informs us of the history of women's rights/feminism, justice is not really served, and men and the government block justice.