![]() ![]() This study provides an evenhanded and important look at a crucial, but often overlooked cross section of American women as they navigated their way through the turbulent decades following the post-war calm of the 1950s. Undeterred, she became a national celebrity, who was interviewed extensively and appeared in sold-out speaking engagements.Īndelin’s message calling for the return to traditional roles appealed to many in a time of uncertainty and radical social change. As Andelin’s notoriety grew, so did the backlash from her critics. A woman’s true happiness, taught Andelin, could only be realized if she admired, cared for, and obeyed her husband. The book, which borrowed heavily from those 1920s advice booklets, the Bible, and classical literature, eventually sold over three million copies and launched a nationwide organization of classes and seminars led by thousands of volunteer teachers.Ĭountering second-wave feminists in the 1960s, Andelin preached family values and urged women not to have careers, but to become good wives, mothers, and homemakers instead. In 1963, at the urging of her followers, Andelin wrote and self-published Fascinating Womanhood. She began leading small discussion groups for women at her church. Andelin took her new-found happiness as a sign that it was her religious duty to share these principles with other women. ![]() He bought her gifts and hurried home from work to be with her. Helen Andelin and the movement she founded, within the larger historical context of women’s reform efforts (4). In writing Helen Andelin and the Fascinating Womanhood Movement, it was Julie Debra Neuffer’s hope that her study would provide a scholarly and evenhanded look at the philosophy and motivations of. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2014. She applied the principles from the booklets and found that her disinterested husband became loving and attentive. Helen Andelin and the Fascinating Womanhood Movement. As she studied a set of women’s advice booklets from the 1920s, Andelin had an epiphany that not only changed her life but also affected the lives of millions of American women. A religious woman, she fasted and prayed for help. Reflections Of A Man by Mr.In 1961, Helen Andelin, housewife and mother of eight, languished in a lackluster, twenty-year-old marriage. The State of Affairs by Esther Perel(3354) Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell(5056) Should I Stay or Should I Go? by Ramani Durvasula(6013) The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts by Gary Chapman(6210) ![]() FASCINATING WOMANHOOD BY HELEN ANDELIN HOW TOPopular ebooks Doing It: Let's Talk About Sex. Fascinating Womanhood: The Updated Edition of the Classic Bestseller That Shows You How to Strengthen Your Marriage and Enrich Your Life is written by Helen Andelin and published by Bantam. Evidence of such rewards has been given by testimonials at the end of the chapters. These things may come as fringe benefits, as they often do, but the promise of Fascinating Womanhood is not material rewards, but a stronger relationship and a tender, romantic love. But, remember, you are not to expect material rewards, such as new clothes, a new dishwasher, flowers, or frilly nightwear. As one wife put it, “Our marriage blossomed like a plant that had been placed in the sun after a long, dark winter.” As a man feels accepted, free, respected as a man, and understood, love is awakened. If it seems you are expected to do a lot of giving without much thought of reward, remember, when you cast your bread upon the waters, it comes back buttered.Īs you apply these principles, it will awaken your husband’s love and tenderness. In addition we must take great pains to not wound his masculine pride. The wonderful wife has an all-comprehending sympathy for his duty to provide the living, and cooperates by living well within his income. We must yield to his authority and allow for errors in his judgment. ![]() We are expected to overlook his faults, appreciate his better side, and make him number one. As we come to the end of the section on Understanding Men, it appears that we must do a lot of giving. ![]()
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