Barber, Virginia, and Skaggs, Merrill Maguire.
The Mother Person
. New York: Schocken Books. 1977.
A book that describes some feelings women have during their motherhood years, including joy, love, guilt, confusion. Fine reading for both men and women.
Birmingham, Stephen.
The Grandes Dames
. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1982.
The story of a number of high society women in the U.S. between the 1870’s and World War II, and how they contributed to our culture and society. A good reference for individual, brief biographies on upper-class women.
Boston Women’s Health Book Collective.
Our Bodies
,
Ourselves
. 2nd edition. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1971.
Written by a number of women, for women about the many changes women have gone through in our society. It makes women aware of their bodies and of the alternatives available to them in today’s world.
DeRosis, M.D., Helen A. and Pellegrino, Victoria Y.
The
Book of Hope
. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, Inc.. 1976.
Describes how women can deal with their feelings and overcome depression.
Dowling, Colette.
The Cinderella Complex
. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1981.
Do women fear independence? This book attempts to answer this question and describes how some women have dealt with their struggle for independence.
Friedan, Betty.
The Feminine Mystique
. New York: Dell Publishing Co. Inc., 1963.
One of the first books to discuss how women can pursue their goals in life. Contains an outline of women’s history.
Hite, Shere.
The Hite Report
. New York: Dell Publishing Co. Inc., 1976.
A study of female sexuality that frankly answers questions about how women feel about sex. It contains a cultural interpretation of female sexuality and includes actual answers from 3,000 women who responded to a survey.
Lasch, Christopher.
Haven in a Heartless World
. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1977.
A critical essay on the sociology, psychology, and history of the family in the U.S.
Levitan Sar A., and Belous, Richard S.
What’s Happening to the American Family?
Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 1981.
Theorizes about the direction the American family is taking in our changing society. It takes an optimistic view of the changing family, and discounts the destruction of ‘family’.
Toffler, Alvin.
The Third Wav
e. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1980.
The first wave was the agricultural revolution, the second, the industrial revolution, and the ‘Third Wave’ is the new era that our society has already progressed into. The “Third Wave Theory” covers a wide, ever-changing range of issues including family, women, occupations, education, politics, and economy and describes the changes of each of these issues throughout the three ‘waves’.