Description |
xxv, 562 pages ; 21 cm |
Note |
Originally published: 1963. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 517-541) and index. |
Contents |
The problem that has no name -- The happy housewife heroine -- The crisis in woman's identity -- The passionate journey -- The sexual solipsism of Sigmund Freud -- The functional freeze, the feminine protest, and Margaret Mead -- The sex-directed educators -- The mistaken choice -- The sexual sell -- Housewifery expands to fill the time available -- The sex-seekers -- Progressive dehumanization: the comfortable concentration camp -- The forfeited self -- A new life plan for women. |
Summary |
A fiftieth anniversary edition of the trailblazing women's reference shares anecdotes and interviews that were originally collected in the early 1960s to inspire women to develop their intellectual capabilities and reclaim lives beyond period conventions. |
Subject |
Feminism -- United States.
|
|
Women -- United States -- Social conditions.
|
|
Women -- Psychology.
|
Added Author |
Collins, Gail, author of introduction, etc.
|
|
Quindlen, Anna, author of afterword, colophon, etc.
|
ISBN |
9780393346787 pbk. |
|
0393346781 pbk. |
|