Wonder women : sex, power, and the quest for perfection / Debora L. Spar.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Sarah Crichton Books, [2013]Copyright date: Edition: First editionDescription: 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780374298753
  • 0374298750
Other title:
  • Sex, power, and the quest for perfection
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 305.42 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ1421 .S677 2013
Online resources:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-289) and index.

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.

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.

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