Additionally, Andelin believed a woman should strive to become an “ideal woman” from a specifically “man’s point of view.” Both books taught the same traditionalist sex role principles, according to which, married women should be homemakers and their husbands breadwinners. While FW was oriented primarily to adult married women, FG targeted single young women. The Fascinating Girl was first published in 1970. Those classes continue to flourish up to the present time in the United States and many other countries. It spawned programs of classes teaching its principles to women. The book Fascinating Womanhood, by the late Helen Andelin, was first published in 1963. One of the most popular of the traditionalist movements was, and remains, that of Fascinating Womanhood. These movements inevitably led to counter-movements calling for the retention and even strengthening of traditional sex roles. Part of it was sometimes called “women’s liberation,” often shortened to “women’s lib.” Today these movements are likely to be referred to as one sort or another of “feminism.” Those movements were extraordinarily diverse. The late 1960s and early 1970s witnessed the emergence of several movements for changes in the treatment of women and an expansion of their opportunities and roles. First published in Winter, 2013, Volume 8, Issue 1, The Hatchet: Journal of Lizzie Borden Studies.
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