AFTER NORA SLAMMED THE DOOR ;; American Women in the 1960s : The Unfinished Revolution

Cleveland, Ohio: The World Publishing Co, 1964. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright.Gilt embossed, blue linen boards/Fine. DJ/VG with nips & chips to edges, and rubs to surface. A social challenges of American middle-class life in the 1960s. Crusades for women's rights officially began in 1848. A literary and historical probe into changing social values, conflicting and shared patterns of behavior of the sexes. The "Nora" who slammed the door is she of Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll House" in 1879. This critical analysis is the leading up-to the American 1960s' Nora; she pleads, "Make me a women" to her husband, and her 1960s husband who pleads in turn, "Make of me a man". 'Tis so, in the 1960s, Nora has evolved into a Barbie "paper doll", with a split-level house with refridgerators, and, her husband a Ken, at ;ost to to find meaning at his workplace. 236 pgs, 10 chapters in 4 parts: Part I, Three Faces: Chapter 1, Nora I: In the Land of Men; 2, Nora II: In the Land of Men; 3, Nora III: In Limbo. Part II: Three False Faces: 4, The Matriarchal Myth; 5, The Myth of the Natural Woman; 6, The Myth of the Total Housewife. Part III, Inheritance: 7, Xantippe in the Suburbs; 8, Venus Prime. and Part IV, Future Indicative: 9, Sex & Semantics; and 10, Looking for a home.