Author: Breines, Wini
Univ Of Chicago Edition; Paperback
280 pages
Published: May 2001
The University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226072614

Young, White, and Miserable is a critically acclaimed study that compellingly shows how the feminist movement of the 1960s first 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.This study shows how the feminist movement of the 1960s first found momentum in the seemingly peaceable time of the 1950s. It 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.