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Danielle Crittenden's What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us, Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman

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Danielle Crittendens "What Our Mothers Didnt Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern  Woman" provides a look at the feminist movement of earlier generations from a perspective seldom tackled by other female writers. Targeting an audience of women in their twenties, Crittenden  analyzes the successes, failures, and shortcomings which she sees as characterizing the lives of her readers mothers, those women who stand at the height of the feminist movement of earlier  generations, those women who gave up much of the status quo of a womans traditional world pursuits in favor of pursuing careers and establishing a type of autonomy from male  influence which had never been achieved before. Crittenden provides a glimpse of the outcome of the feminist movement which sometimes differs  radically from our perceptions of the glitter and glory of modern feminism. Crittenden observes that the women who have reached the pinnacle of our quest for liberation from traditional  responsibilities, responsibilities such as commitment, childrearing, and marriage, are often not really that happy or that successful. Indeed, according to Crittenden, these women are more often characterized by high  stress levels and emotional insecurity about whether they have really made the right life choices. Indeed, according to "What Our Mothers  Didnt Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman" the few successes modern feminists have enjoyed in life has served to sever them from their innate feminine drives.  An even more unfortunate aspect of this spin-off of the feminist movement is the impact the lives of these women has had on the lives of their daughters, daughters who