A review of Stephanie Coontz' (teaches history and family studies at Evergreen State College) new book on the reception and effects of The Feminine Mystique appears in next Sunday's NYT Book Review.
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By REBECCA TRAISTER
Published: January 20, 2011
Halfway through “A Strange Stirring,” the social historian Stephanie Coontz — parsing the reception of “The Feminine Mystique,” Betty Friedan’s 1963 examination of middle-class female repression and despair — confesses to feeling some ambivalence over Friedan’s project, and hence her own.
Acknowledging the working-class and minority women left out of Friedan’s best seller, Coontz admits that while it is “pointless to construct a hierarchy of who hurt more,” her own initial reaction to Friedan’s elite scope “was to dismiss the pain of the middle-class housewives as less ‘real’ than that of their working-class sisters.”
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See also
Coontz, Stephanie. "Why 'Mad Men' is TV's most feminist show." The Washington Post, Sunday 10 October, 2010
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