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A strange stirring : the Feminine mystique and American women at the dawn of the 1960s

2012

Format:	Book
Author:	Coontz, Stephanie.
Title:	A strange stirring : the Feminine mystique and American women at the dawn of the 1960s / Stephanie Coontz.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Basic Books, 2012.
Description:	xxiii, 222 pages ; 21 cm
Summary:	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.
Subjects:	Friedan, Betty. Feminine mystique. Feminism -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Other Title:	Feminine mystique and American women at the dawn of the 1960s
Notes:	Originally published: 2011. Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-208) and index.
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?
ISBN:	046502842X 9780465028429 9780465028429 9780465002009 0465002005
Other Number:	809830203
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Control Number:	334335
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Call Number:	305.42 Coontz

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