Remembering ‘The Total Woman’ Nearly Fifty Years Later

A best-selling book that taught women to submit to their husband and greet him in sexy costumes served as one formula for those rejecting the women’s movement

Sarah Stankorb
7 min readMar 29, 2022

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Morgan on the cover of TIME, featured on one of her subsequent books.

Nearly fifty years ago, in the wake of the Equal Rights Amendment’s passage through Congress, a book…

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Sarah Stankorb

Sarah Stankorb has published with The Washington Post, Marie Claire, Glamour, O, and The Atlantic (among others). @sarahstankorb www.sarahstankorb.com