Volume 43, Number 19 · November 28, 1996
What Do Women Want?
By Diane Johnson
'Bad Girls'/'Good Girls': Women, Sex, and Power in the Nineties
edited by Nan Bauer Maglin, edited by Donna Perry
Rutgers University Press, 303 pp., $17.95 (paper)
'Feminism is Not the Story of My Life': How Today's Feminist Elite Has Lost Touch with the Real Concerns of Women
by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 275 pp., $23.95
She Works, He Works: How Two-Income Families are Happier, Healthier, and Better-Off
by Rosalind C. Barnett, by Caryl Rivers
HarperSanFrancisco, 260 pp., $24.00
The Sibling Society
by Robert Bly
Addison-Wesley, 319 pp., $25.00
The Seasons of a Woman's Life
by Daniel J. Levinson
Knopf, 438 pp., $27.50
The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood
by Sharon Hays
Yale University Press, 252 pp., $25.00
If, like this writer, you have not really kept up with feminist issues since having your consciousness raised by Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique in 1963, you should be warned that it is probably too late to master a taxonomy of bewildering complexity, like coming in late on the human genome project. Betty Friedan's premise was that 'women were really people—no more—no less,' and her conclusion was that 'all the things that kept them from being full people in our society would have to be changed.'
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