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What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman
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Talk to women under forty today, and you will hear that in spite of the fact that they have achieved goals previous generations of women could only dream of, they nonetheless feel more confused and insecure than ever. What has gone wrong? What can be done to set it right?
These are the questions Danielle Crittenden answers in What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us. She examines the foremost issues in women's lives -- sex, marriage, motherhood, work, aging, and politics -- and argues that a generation of women has been misled: taught to blame men and pursue independence at all costs. Happiness is obtainable, Crittenden says, but only if women will free their minds from outdated feminist attitudes.
By drawing on her own experience and a decade of research and analysis of modern female life, Crittenden passionately and engagingly tackles the myths that keep women from realizing the happiness they deserve. And she introduces a new way of thinking about society's problems that may, at long last, help women achieve the lives they desire.
These are the questions Danielle Crittenden answers in What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us. She examines the foremost issues in women's lives -- sex, marriage, motherhood, work, aging, and politics -- and argues that a generation of women has been misled: taught to blame men and pursue independence at all costs. Happiness is obtainable, Crittenden says, but only if women will free their minds from outdated feminist attitudes.
By drawing on her own experience and a decade of research and analysis of modern female life, Crittenden passionately and engagingly tackles the myths that keep women from realizing the happiness they deserve. And she introduces a new way of thinking about society's problems that may, at long last, help women achieve the lives they desire.
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Danielle Crittenden
Danielle Crittenden is a journalist and author of several books, including What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us and The President's Secret IMs.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I enjoyed the thought provoking suggestions however I felt the ending was missing something. It definitely opened my eyes to a new perspective on the working mother, feminism and its relationship to modern society. I think my greatest take away was that saying yes to one thing does mean saying no to another as there are real effects to the decisions we make that correspond to the values we cherish.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is a book that deals with the feminist's believes of yesterday and today and how they prevent women from truely being happy. This deals with the delima women have in to work or to stay at home, how our views on that affect our voting, if sexual freedom causes more problems than it solves, etc. Not a book saying all women should stay at home but search for a happy medium between the 'All men are evil and not needed' and the 'submisive housewife of days gone by'.
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