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020 _a9780465002009 (hc : alk. paper)
020 _a0465002005 (hc : alk. paper)
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100 1 _aCoontz, Stephanie.
245 1 2 _aA strange stirring :
_bthe Feminine mystique and American women at the dawn of the 1960s /
_cStephanie Coontz.
260 _aNew York :
_bBasic Books,
_cc2011.
300 _axxiii, 222 p. ;
_c25 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 191-208) and index.
505 0 _aThe 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?
520 _aChallenging 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.
600 1 0 _aFriedan, Betty.
_tFeminine mystique.
650 0 _aFeminism
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aWomen
_zUnited States
_xSocial conditions
_y20th century.
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