Wonder women : sex, power, and the quest for perfection

Summary: Explores "why, a half century after the publication of Betty Friedan's The feminine mystique ... women still feel stuck ... [detailing] how American women's lives have--and have not--changed over the past fifty years"--Dust jacket flap.

Record details

ISBN: 9780374298753 (hc.)
Physical Description: print
305 pages. ; 23cm.
Edition: 1st Ed.
Publisher: New York, NY : Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-289) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Growing up Charlie -- Girls : a handbook -- Sex and the social contract -- Bodies and other accessories -- Truly, madly, deeply -- Mythologies of birth -- The good wife's guide to life and love -- Crashing into ceilings : a report from the nine-to-five shift -- Memories of my waist -- Kissing Charlie goodbye.