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Women, Wives, Mothers - Values and Options (Hardcover)
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Women, Wives, Mothers - Values and Options (Hardcover)
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One of the most important series of events in modern times--the
restructuring of sex roles to adapt them to modern life--is here
chronicled from the perspective of a lifetime of studying and
writing about women. In this lively, lucid book Jessie Bernard
examines, with concern and expertise, the dramatic changes in
values experienced by women of all ages in all classes of society,
and how these changes affect the options available to women
today--as women, as wives, as mothers. Bernard begins her five-part
examination with a critical overview of research on sex
differences, pointing out the sexism that is implicit in most of
this research and suggesting what kinds of research should be done.
She discusses the paradox involved in preparing girls for the most
demanding of all roles--motherhood--by fostering weakness in them
rather than strength. She writes of the ages and stages of
motherhood and the momentous changes now in process in the roles of
wife and mother, as more women combine labor force participation
with marriage and motherhood. Bernard contrasts the positions of
the nineteenth- and twentieth-century feminist movements with
respect to class, and reports on the influence of the feminist
movement on working class and African-American women. The last part
of the book tells of the bitter fruits of extreme sex role
specialization, both for women and for society, and examines
policy-relevant research on motherhood. Bernard explores the many
new potentialities open to women, and, finally, the societal forms
that will be necessary in order for women to plan their lives with
wider latitude. Both the general reader and students of women's
studies will be delighted and informed by Jessie Bernard's
enlightening report on where women have been and where they are
going in American society.
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