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| Named Person: | Betty Friedan |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Stephanie Coontz |
| ISBN: | 9780465002009 0465002005 |
| OCLC Number: | 535492252 |
| Description: | xxiii, 222 p. ; 25 cm. |
| 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? |
| Responsibility: | Stephanie Coontz. |
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<p>Kirkus Reviews<br>"A sharp revisiting of the generation that was floored by Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique" (1963), and how the book is still relevant today.... A valuable education for women "and" men."Daniel Horowitz, author of "Betty Friedan and the Making of The Feminine Mystique"""It Changed My Life "was the title of the book Betty Friedan wrote after her transformative 1963 "The Feminine Mystique." And change she did the lives of American women. Now in her biography of a classic, Stephanie Coontz imaginatively explores the impact of Friedan's book. Weaving a rich fabric from what women said in letters and interviews, from articles in popular magazines, current scholarship, and her own astute reading of the 1963 work, Coontz compellingly reveals how generations of women--from the flappers of the 1920s to the bloggers and helicopter moms of today--have responded to the challenges modern women face." Christie Hefner, former chairman and chief executive officer of Playboy Enterprises and longest serving female C.E.O. of a U.S. public company"As was written about "The""Feminine Mystique," "A Strange Stirring" is 'a journalistic tour de force, combining scholarship, investigative reporting and a compelling personal voice.' Stephanie Coontz has made a significant contribution to our understanding of the most transformative movement of our lifetimes. Much of what Coontz reports regarding the prevailing ethos of the 1950s as a time of conformity, cultural conservatism and social repressiveness will be fascinating and eye-opening for younger readers. This book is a must read for men as well as for women. And the transformational desire for a work/family balance in life is now reflected not just by gender, but by generation, as both men and women 'need to grow and fulfill their potentialities as human beings, ' as Friedan wrote almost a half a century ago." Elizabeth Gilbert, author of "Eat, Pray, Love" "Stephanie Coontz is not just one of the most important h Read more...
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