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Young, white, and miserable : growing up female in the fifties
- Title
- Young, white, and miserable : growing up female in the fifties / Wini Breines.
- Author
- Breines, Wini.
- Publication
- Boston : Beacon Press, ©1992.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | HQ76.2.U5 G395 1992 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xvii, 261 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- In "Young, White, and Miserable" Wini Breines compellingly shows how the feminist movement of the 1960s found momentum in the seemingly peaceable time of the 1950s, and argues that mixed messages given to white middle class girls during this decade lent fuel to the fire that would later become feminism. Concluding with a look at the life and suicide of social scientist Anne Parsons, Breines gives us a poignant view of conditions that led to the women's movement. -- From publisher's description.
- Subject
- Since 1900
- Teenage girls > United States > Social conditions
- Middle class > United States > History > 20th century
- Social history > 1945-1960
- 15.85 history of America
- Social conditions
- Middle class
- Social history
- Teenage girls > Social conditions
- Weibliche Jugend
- Mittelstand
- Meisjes
- Opvoeding
- Middenklassen
- Sociale situatie
- adolescente > conditions sociales > 1960. > Etats-Unis > 1945
- Geschichte (1945-1960)
- United States > Social conditions > 1945-
- United States
- USA
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The experts' fifties: -- Women, men and male social -- Scientists -- Family legacies -- Sexual puzzles -- The other fifties: -- Beats, bad girls and rock and roll -- Alone in the fifties: -- Anne Parsons and the feminine -- Mystique.
- ISBN
- 0807075027
- 9780807075029
- 0807075035
- 9780807075036
- LCCN
- 91028608
- OCLC
- ocm24376633
- 24376633
- SCSB-1946649
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library