A strange stirring : the Feminine mystique and American women at the dawn of the 1960s / Stephanie Coontz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coontz, Stephanie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism--United States--History--20th century.

Feminism.

Women--United States--Social conditions--20th century.

Women.

Friedan, Betty. Feminine mystique.

Friedan, Betty.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Books, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An eminent social historian chronicles the extraordinary impact of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique on the ?lost generation" of American women

Contents:

Contents; Author's Note; Introduction; 1 The Unliberated 1960s; 2 Naming the Problem: Friedan's Message to American Housewives; 3 After the First Feminist Wave: Women from the 1920s to the 1940s; 4 The Contradictions of Womanhood in the 1950s; 5 ""I Thought I Was Crazy""; 6 The Price of Privelege: Middle-Class Women and the Feminine Mystique; 7 African-American Women, Working-Class Women, and the Feminine Mystique; 8 Demystifying the Feminine Mystique; 9 Women, Men, Marriage, and Work Today: Is the Feminine Mystique Dead?; Acknowledgments; Selected Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780465022328

0465022324

OCLC:

697122317