Young, white, and miserable: Growing up female in the fifties

In "Young, White, and Miserable" Wini Breines compellingly shows how the feminist movement of the 1960s found momentum in the seemingly peaceable time of the 1950s, and argues that mixed messages given to white middle class girls during this decade lent fuel to the fire that would later become feminism. Concluding with a look at the life and suicide of social scientist Anne Parsons, Breines gives us a poignant view of conditions that led to the women's movement. -- From publisher's description.