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Author:

Spar, Debora L.

Title:

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

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Sarah Crichton Books,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Women--United States--Social conditions--21st century.
Women--United States--Attitudes.
Spar, Debora L.
Feminism.
Women's rights.
Equality.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.

ISBN:

0374298750
9780374298753

OCLC:

(OCoLC)827257019

LCCN:

2013941741

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