Review 120: A Strange Stirring

A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s by Stephanie Coontz
My rating: 4 of 5 stars


A good follow-up to The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan. This book looks as the response to Friedan's book at the time, and a few of the changes since then. It is also a critique of the book, such as Friedan was just writing to white middle-class women, that left many women out. There was some background on Friedan that was interesting as well.