| Edition |
50th anniversary edition. |
| Description |
xxv, 562 pages ; 25 cm |
| 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 |
Views the distorted image of women that prevailed from the end of the Second World War through the early sixties and relects upon changes. |
| Subject |
Feminism -- United States.
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Women -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Women -- Psychology.
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| ISBN |
9780393063790 hardback |
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0393063798 hardback |
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9780393346787 (pbk.) |
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0393346781 (pbk.) |
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