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Later the women will learn how to pound their fists on their husbands’ chests in childlike rage. “Men love it,” says the movement’s founder and guru, Helen B. Andelin, 55\. A devout Mormon, she developed her methods years ago when she felt her own marriage going sour. Now, after eight children and 32 years of marriage, her husband adores her, she reports, and even helps out at the Fascinating Womanhood Foundation in Santa Barbara, Calif. Eleven thousand teachers have been trained to teach feminine arts and craftiness the Andelin way in schools and churches across the country: in the past 14 years 300,000 women have taken the eight-week, $15 course. Their primary text is Andelin’s 1965 book, Fascinating Womanhood (Pacific Press; $6.95), which has sold more than 400,000 copies, and is about to be issued in paperback. Students will be paying $12.50 for a new kit that includes the paperback edition of Womanhood, plus such items as the Domestic Goddess Planning Notebook, for listing tomorrow’s chores, and the Love Book, for scribbling down the endearments her husband will utter once the wife learns her lessons. Righteous Power. Basically, Andelin preaches conservative Christian doctrine on the need for wives to submit to husbands. She also teaches a kind of psychic judo for women to use on their mates: give in to get what you want, because submissiveness will bring “a strange but righteous power over your man.” Beneath all Andelin’s devotional trickery lies a core of compassion. For example, she suggests that before a wife tries to reform an alcoholic husband, she should fast for three days to get some idea of the pain withdrawal will cause him. Andelin is not the only woman preaching a potent antifeminist message rooted in conservative Christian teachings. Her most popular rival is Marabel Morgan, 37, of Miami, a housewife and mother of two. Morgan’s book, The Total Woman, released quietly in late 1973 by Fleming H. Revell, an obscure New Jersey publisher, sold 370,000 copies at $5.95 to become the nation’s top non-fiction bestseller in 1974\. (It was missing from most bestseller lists because it was sold mainly in small-town shops and bookstores unpolled by the list makers.) Total Woman courses, which Morgan started four years ago, last only four weeks (one two-hour class a week) and cost $15\. Her students, who have included Singer Anita Bryant, the wife of Astronaut Frank Borman and those of a dozen Miami Dolphin football players, have been taught to find happiness by living entirely for their husbands. Like Fascinating Women, Total Women celebrate male dominance and depend on guile and sauciness to get their way, but they use sex more overtly than their Fascinating sisters. A Total Woman is instructed to be ready for intercourse every night for a week, to try to seduce her husband in an unlikely spot like under the dining-room table or in the hammock. “He may say, ‘We don’t have a hammock.’ You can reply, ‘Oh, darling, I forgot!’ If you are creative and imaginative, he’ll love you for it.” She should also try to greet her man at the door in “an outrageously sexy outfit.” (The children get a kick out of this too, says Morgan.) One Southern Baptist woman wore only mesh stockings, high heels and an apron to welcome her mate home from work. She reports that her husband shouted, “Praise the Lord!” and finished his dinner very rapidly. Other tips: put a sexy note in your husband’s briefcase or lunch box and call him at his job to say “I crave your body.” (One woman got the wrong number and found herself talking to her husband’s startled friend.) Some of the techniques for ending arguments are familiar to marriage counselors, for instance, making a list of your husband’s best qualities and reading them off to him with enough embellishment to make him melt. But there are limits to profitable deceit. When one wife said her Miami Dolphin husband complained at being asked to open all the food jars, Morgan replied sensibly: If his ego is that strong, only hand him the jars you really can’t open. One of the aims of both Morgan and Andelin is to get women out of competition with men, and Andelin says that many of her graduates quit their jobs unless the extra income is essential. “There are sufficient men to be Presidents and not nearly enough women to be good mothers,” she declares. But whatever the movement owes to the anxieties raised by women’s lib, Andelin insists she is not antifeminist. 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