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| Title: | A strange stirring : the Feminine mystique and American women at the dawn of the 1960s / |
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| Database Name: | WorldCat |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Stephanie Coontz |
| ISBN: | 9780465002009 (hc : alk. paper); 0465002005 (hc : alk. paper) |
| Notes: | Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-208) and index. Content: 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 today: is the feminine mystique dead? |
| Description: | xxiii, 222 p. ; 25 cm. |
| 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 today: is the feminine mystique dead? |
| Responsibility: | Stephanie Coontz. |
| Year: | c2011. |
| Publisher: | New York : Basic Books, |
| Standard Numbers: | LCCN: 2010022163; National Library: 015749682 |
| Class Descriptors: | LC Class No.: HQ1426.F8443; Dewey No.: 305.4209/045 |
| OCLC No.: | 535492252 |
Abstract:
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 social and political injustice.
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