Young, White, and Miserable: Growing up Female in the Fifties
Young, White, and Miserable is a critically acclaimed study that compellingly shows how the feminist movement of the 1960s found momentum in the seemingly peaceable time of the 1950s. Wini Breines explores white middle class America and argues that mixed messages given to girls during this decade lent fuel to the fire that would later become known as feminism. Concluding with a look at the life and suicide of social scientist Anne Parsons, this book is a poignant and important look into...
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Young, White, and Miserable is a critically acclaimed study that compellingly shows how the feminist movement of the 1960s found momentum in the seemingly peaceable time of the 1950s. Wini Breines explores white middle class America and argues that mixed messages given to girls during this decade lent fuel to the fire that would later become known as feminism. Concluding with a look at the life and suicide of social scientist Anne Parsons, this book is a poignant and important look into conditions that led to the women's movement. Publishers Weekly In a revelatory look at the young women's culture of the '50s, Breines contends that the frustrated women of that generation were unheralded pioneers of the women's movement. (Jan.)
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Experts' Fifties: Women, Men, and Male Social Scientists2. Family Legacies3. Sexual Puzzles4. The Other Fifties: Beats, Bad Girls, and Rock and Roll5. Alone in the Fifties: Anne Parsons and the Feminine MystiqueConclusionNotesIndex
\ Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly\ In a revelatory look at the young women's culture of the '50s, Breines contends that the frustrated women of that generation were unheralded pioneers of the women's movement. (Jan.)\ \
