A Fearful Freedom: Women's Flight from Equality

by Wendy Kaminer

Explains how women in the eighties backed down from the fight for equality and returned to their more passive role because of their doubt of competing with men in the workplace while still being responsible for child care

Genres: Nonfiction, Feminism

Hardcover

First published May 1, 1990

Reviews

[Kaethe]

Loved it at the time, but now it's gone all mushy in my mind, conflated with other works of feminism. The gist, if I recall correctly, is that feminism lost its focus on equality, and that was a mistake.

[Liz]

Meh: kind of bought into it, but in a very lay-away kind of way.