The fair women

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Betty Friedan

Warning the women's movement against dissolving into factionalism, male-bashing, and preoccupation with sexual and identity politics rather than bottom-line political and economic inequalities, Friedan argues that once past the initial phases of describing and working against political and economic injustices, the women's movement should focus on working with men to remake private and public arrangements that work against full lives with children for women and men both. Friedan's agenda to preserve families is far more radical than it appears, for she argues that a truly equitable preservation of marriage and family may require a reorganization of many aspects of conventional middle-class life, from the greater use of flex time and job-sharing, to company-sponsored daycare, to new home designs to permit communal housekeeping and cooking arrangements.

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Marianne Berger Woods

"This annotated bibliography includes all period novels with a New Woman protagonist and all period articles with the New Woman as primary subject, along with several poems, cartoons, advertisements, and artworks. Because the New Woman was also the target of many derisive articles, poems, and visual works, these critical response pieces are included as well"--Provided by publisher.

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sous la direction de Hélène Marquié et Noël Burch

Le propos est ici de saisir, chaque fois dans son contexte historique, la complexité des relations entre les rapports de pouvoir entre les sexes et les imaginaires collectifs dont les productions culturelles sont à la fois le support et le résultat. Productions culturelles, oeuvres d'hommes et de femmes, qui traitant d'émancipation sexuelle parlent du désir comme subversion de l'ordre social mais portent néanmoins la marque de l'inscription profonde, souvent implicite ou ambiguë, des inégalités entre les sexes, et parfois même, de façon perverse, de l'attachement à ces inégalités.

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Margaret Randall

"A completely new and different book from her earlier Sandino's Daughters. The core is a dozen lengthy interviews with feminist women (all but one), hence not randomly drawn from Nicaraguan society. Randall opens the volume with a useful, wide-ranging interpretative survey of history, politics, and the social situation of women. One observation that sticks: women who most resembled men in their conduct rose highest under Sandinista rule"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.