Ebook: A strange stirring the Feminine mystique and American women at the dawn of the 1960s
Author: Coontz Stephanie
- Tags: Friedan, Feminism, Feminism--United States--History--20th century, Friedan Betty--Feminine mystique, Women--Social conditions, Women--United States--Social conditions--20th century, History, Friedan Betty. -- Feminine mystique, Feminism -- United States -- History -- 20th century, Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century, Women -- Social conditions, United States, Friedan Betty -- Feminine mystique
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Basic Books
- City: United States
- Edition: Paperback first published
- Language: English
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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;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?.
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