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What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman
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What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman Paperback - 2000

by Danielle Crittenden

In her thoughtful, witty, and hotly debated assessment of modern women's lives, Crittenden argues that the road to happiness lies in recognizing the fundamental importance of love, marriage, and motherhood.


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Talk to women under forty today, and you will hear that in spite of the fact that they have achieved goals previous generations of women could only dream of, they nonetheless feel more confused and insecure than ever. What has gone wrong? What can be done to set it right? These are the questions Danielle Crittenden answers in What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us. She examines the foremost issues in women's lives -- sex, marriage, motherhood, work, aging, and politics -- and argues that a generation of women has been misled: taught to blame men and pursue independence at all costs. Happiness is obtainable, Crittenden says, but only if women will free their minds from outdated feminist attitudes. By drawing on her own experience and a decade of research and analysis of modern female life, Crittenden passionately and engagingly tackles the myths that keep women from realizing the happiness they deserve. And she introduces a new way of thinking about society's problems that may, at long last, help women achieve the lives they desire.

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IN RETROSPECT, it's almost quaint the way our teachers attempted to teach us about sex.

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  • Title What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman
  • Author Danielle Crittenden
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Touchstone E
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Simon & Schuster, New York
  • Date 2000-03-01
  • ISBN 9780684859590 / 0684859599
  • Weight 0.61 lbs (0.28 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.54 x 5.54 x 0.55 in (21.69 x 14.07 x 1.40 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Happiness, Women - United States - Social conditions
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.420

About the author

Danielle Crittenden has written for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Ladies' Home Journal, among other publications. She is the founder of The Women's Quarterly, published by the Independent Women's Forum. She has appeared on NBC's Today show and is a frequent commentator on many national television and radio programs. She lives with her husband and two children in Washington, D
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