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

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 generati...