A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s (35 page)

Title VII of the Civil Rights Bill, amendment to

Toffler, Alvin

Tranquilizers

Treatise on the Family
(Becker)

Truman, Harry

UN Commission on the Status of Women

Unions

United Auto Workers (UAW)

United Electrical Workers

United Nations

University of California at Berkeley

University of California, Hastings Law School

University of Illinois

University of Michigan

University of Southern California

University of Texas

Unmarried working women.
See
Single career women; Working women/mothers

Unwed mothers

abolition of laws penalizing

social stigma facing

“Up from the Kitchen Floor” (Friedan)

U.S. ambassadors, women as

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor, Women’s Bureau

U.S. House of Representatives
See also
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

U.S. Secretary of State, women as

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

Vacations

Vassar College

Victorian gender roles/ideas

Virginity

Volunteering

Voting rights
See also
Nineteenth Amendment; Suffrage movement

W. W. Norton & Company

Wages/salary.
See
Income

Walker, Nancy

Waller, Willard

Warner, Judith

Warren, Carol

Wayne State University

Wedding costs

Weiss, Jessica

Whelan, Christine

When Everything Changed
(Collins)

When Nora Slammed the Door
(Merriam)

White, Lynn

Why Women Cry: or Wenches with Wrenches
(Hawes)

Wilde, Oscar

Wilder, Laura Ingalls

Wilkins, Roy

Williams, Jesse Lynch

Williams, Joan

Wilson, Woodrow

Wives and mothers.
See
Homemakers; Working women/mothers

“Woman’s Place Is in the Home” (Lane)

Women and Self-Help Culture
(Simonds)

“Women Are
People
Too” (Friedan)

“Women Fight for a Better Life” (Friedan)

Women in the Modern World: Their Education and Their Dilemmas
(Komarovsky)

Women Who Love Too Much
(Norwood)

Women Who Made the World Worse
(O’Beirne)

Women’s assigned roles

in the 1950s

stereotypes and ambivalence about

unliberated view of

See also
Homemakers; Single career women; Working women/mothers

Women’s Bureau.
See
U.S. Department of Labor, Women’s Bureau

Women’s liberation groups

Women’s magazines

focus and influence of

reception of, to Friedan’s work

Women’s movement

in the 1840s and 1850s

first wave of the

opponents of the

relationship of
The Feminine Mystique
to the

working-class women attracted to the

See also
Feminism; National Organization for Women (NOW); Women’s rights

Women’s National Abortion Action Coalition

Women’s Political Caucus

Women’s rights

lack of

during the McCarthy era

media attention to

See also
Civil Rights Bill; Civil rights movement; Discrimination and prejudice; Suffrage movement; Women’s movement

Women’s Strike for Equality

Women’s Two Roles: Home and Work
(Myrdal and Klein)

Work-family issues

Working women/mothers

African-American women as

demographic characteristics of

and divorce rates

during World War II

hostility toward

increase in social acceptability of

and the independence effect

and marriage rates

and the masculine crisis

and the mommy wars

poor, pressures on

post-World War II

and relationships

today’s prejudices facing

See also
Single career women; Work-family issues; Working-class women

Working-class women

long-term study of

relevancy of
The Feminine Mystique
to

in the workforce

The World Split Open
(Rosen)

World War I

World War II

booming economy after

social and ideological changes following

and television’s postwar portrayal

working women during

Wyatt, Addie

Wylie, Philip

Yale University

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

 

Coontz, Stephanie.
A strange stirring : the Feminine mystique and
American women at the dawn of the 1960s / Stephanie Coontz.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

eISBN : 978-0-465-02232-8

1. Friedan, Betty. Feminine mystique. 2. Feminism—United States—History—20th century. 3. Women—United States—Social conditions—20th century. I. Title.

HQ1426.F8443C66 2010

305.4209’045—dc22

2010022163