A strange stirring
Subtitle: the Feminine mystique and American women at the dawn of the 1960s
By: Stephanie Coontz
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780465002009
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The unliberated sixties; title: Naming the problem: Friedan's message to American housewives; title: What happened to the first wave of feminism? American women from the 1920s through the 1940s; title: Door opening, minds closing: the contradictions of womanhood in the 1950s; title: "I thought I was crazy": women recall what the Feminine mystique meant to them; title: The price of privilege: guilt and self-doubt among educated white middle-class women in the 1950s and 1960s; title: Work and family aspirations among African-American women and white working-class women: was the Feminine mystique only relevant to elite white women?; title: Demystifying the Feminine mystique: how the myths about its origins and impact bury its real achievements; title: Men and women, marriage and work, and the Feminine mystique today.