A strange stirring : the Feminine mystique and American women at the dawn of the 1960s / Stephanie Coontz.
Publication details: New York : Basic Books, c2011.Description: xxiii, 222 p. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780465002009 (hc : alk. paper)
- 0465002005 (hc : alk. paper)
- 305.4209/045 22
- HQ1426.F8443 C66 2011
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-208) and index.
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?
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.