Wonder women
Subtitle: sex, power, and the quest for perfection
By: Debora L. Spar
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780374298753
Subjects: Equality; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Popular reading; Attitudes; Women's rights; Social conditions; Essays; Feminism; Women
Other titles: Sex, power, and the quest for perfection
Description: Explores "why, a half century after the publication of Betty Friedan's The feminine mystique ... women still feel stuck ... [detailing] how American women's lives have--and have not--changed over the past fifty years"--Dust jacket flap.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-289) and index.
Table of contents: title: Growing up Charlie; title: Girls : a handbook; title: Sex and the social contract; title: Bodies and other accessories; title: Truly, madly, deeply; title: Mythologies of birth; title: The good wife's guide to life and love; title: Crashing into ceilings : a report from the nine-to-five shift; title: Memories of my waist; title: Kissing Charlie goodbye.