A Strange Stirring
The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s
New York : Basic Books, [2011]
Format: Ebook
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Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 222 pages)
Challenging both conservative and liberal myths about Betty Friedan's bestselling book,The Feminine Mystique, historian Stephanie Coontz re-examines the dawn of the 1960s (when the sexual revolution had barely begun) and brilliantly illuminates how a generation of women came to realize that their dissatisfaction with domestic life didn't reflect their personal weakness but rather a social and political injustice.
Contents:
The unliberated 1960s -- Naming the problem: Friedan's message to American housewives -- After the first feminist wave: women from the 1920s through the 1940s -- The contradictions of womanhood in the 1950s -- "I thought I was crazy" -- The price of privilege: middle-class women and the feminine mystique -- African-American women, working-class women, and the feminine mystique -- Demystifying the Feminine mystique -- Women, men, marriage, and work tpday: is the feminine mystique dead?
Subjects:
Friedan, Betty. Feminine mystique.
Feminism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Friedan, Betty. Feminine mystique.
Feminism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory.
ISBN:
9780465022328
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Ebook
Electronic resource.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-208) and index.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-208) and index.
Description based on print version record.