TY  - BOOK
AU  - Coontz,Stephanie
TI  - A strange stirring: the Feminine mystique and American women at the dawn of the 1960s 
SN  - 9780465002009 (hc : alk. paper)
AV  - HQ 1426 .C66 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Basic Books
KW  - Friedan, Betty.
KW  - Feminism
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Women
KW  - Social conditions
N1  - 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?
N2  - 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
ER  -