Young, White, and Miserable: Growing Up Female in the Fifties

by Wini Breines

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226072616
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	03/01/2001
Edition description:	1
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Wini Breines is a professor in the department of sociology and anthropology at Northeastern University. She is coeditor most recently of Takin’ It To the Streets: A Sixties Reader.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Experts' Fifties: Women, Men, and Male Social Scientists
2. Family Legacies
3. Sexual Puzzles
4. The Other Fifties: Beats, Bad Girls, and Rock and Roll
5. Alone in the Fifties: Anne Parsons and the Feminine Mystique
Conclusion
Notes
Index

Editorial Reviews

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.)

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