| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-289) and index. |
| Contents |
Growing up Charlie -- Girls : a handbook -- Sex and the social contract -- Bodies and other accessories -- Truly, madly, deeply -- Mythologies of birth -- The good wife's guide to life and love -- Crashing into ceilings : a report from the nine-to-five shift -- Memories of my waist -- Kissing Charlie goodbye. |
| Summary |
Explores "why, a half century after the publication of Betty Friedan's The feminine mystique ... women still feel stuck ... [detailing] how American women's lives have--and have not--changed over the past fifty years"--Dust jacket flap. |
| Subject |
Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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Women -- United States -- Attitudes.
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Spar, Debora L.
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Feminism.
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Women's rights.
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Equality.
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| Added Title |
Sex, power, and the quest for perfection |
| ISBN |
9780374298753 |
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0374298750 |
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