LEADER 03840nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910418281803321 005 20241204160657.0 010 $a1-299-43835-0 010 $a3-0351-0113-2 024 7 $a10.3726/978-3-0351-0113-3 035 $a(CKB)2670000000235367 035 $a(EBL)1055821 035 $a(OCoLC)818878040 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000722142 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11398130 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000722142 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10695105 035 $a(PQKB)10083230 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1055821 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/26882 035 $a(PPN)229175899 035 $a(oapen)doab26882 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000235367 100 $a20100611d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWomen, love, and learning $ethe double bind /$fAlison Mackinnon 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBern ;$aNew York $cPeter Lang$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (256 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a3-0343-0450-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [235]-249) and index. 327 $aContents; Acknowledgements 9; Introduction 13; 1 Who was she? Surveying the educated woman: posture photos, beauty queens, dormitory rules and achievement motivation 29; 2 Conservative times: Cold War, hot sex and the consumer revolution 65; 3 The experience: peer culture or academics? 105; 4 Life after college: a problematic realm 143; 5 From Mademoiselle to Ms magazine: mainstreamers, continuity and premature liberationists 181; Conclusion: It's deja vu all over again? 213; A note on sources and method 229; Bibliography 235; Index 251 330 $aThis book tells the story of a generation of American and Australian women who embodied ? and challenged ? the prescriptions of their times. In the 1950s and early 60s they went to colleges and universities, trained for professions and developed a life of the mind. They were also urged to embrace their femininity, to marry young, to devote themselves to husbands, children and communities. Could they do both? While they might be seen as a privileged group, they led the way for a multitude in the years ahead. They were quietly making the revolution that was to come. Did they have ?the best of all possible worlds?? Or were they caught in a double bind? Sylvia Plath?s letters tell of her delighted sense of life opening before her as a ?college girl?. Her poetry, however, tells of anguish, of reaching for distant goals. Drawing on interviews, surveys, reunion books, letters, biographical and autobiographical writing from both American and Australian women, this cultural history argues that the choices that faced educated women in that time led to the revolution of the late 1960s and 70s. Something had to give. There are lessons here for today?s young women, facing again conflicting expectations. Is it possible, they ask, to ?have it all?? 606 $aWomen$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWomen$zAustralia$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aFeminism$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aFeminism$zAustralia$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWomen$xSocial conditions$y20th century 615 0$aWomen$xHistory 615 0$aWomen$xHistory 615 0$aFeminism$xHistory 615 0$aFeminism$xHistory 615 0$aWomen$xSocial conditions 676 $a305.40973 676 $a305.40973 700 $aMackinnon$b Alison$f1942-$0908002 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910418281803321 996 $aWomen, love, and learning$92076594 997 $aUNINA