The Feminine Mystique
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
In 1963, Betty Friedan ignited a revolution with a single, devastating question: why are so many American women deeply unhappy? The Feminine Mystique chronicles the pervasive post-war cultural myth that a woman's ultimate fulfilment lay exclusively in domesticity — in being a devoted wife, a nurturing mother, and the perfect homemaker. Friedan exposes the institutional forces — from women's magazines and Freudian psychology to advertising and higher education — that conspired to confine women to the suburbs and silence their intellectual and professional ambitions. The result is a portrait of quiet desperation that Friedan memorably calls the problem that has no name. A landmark of 20th-century feminist thought, The Feminine Mystique argues with rigour and passion that women are systematically denied the right to a full human identity. Friedan's prose is both journalistic and deeply personal, weaving together sociological research, historical analysis, and intimate interviews to build an irrefutable case. The book is widely credited with sparking the second wave of feminism, reshaping American society in ways that continue to reverberate today. For anyone seeking to understand the origins of modern gender politics, this essential text asks an uncomfortable question that still demands an answer.
Author: Betty Friedan
Format: Paperback
Published: 1965, Penguin Books
Genre: Gender studies
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
In 1963, Betty Friedan ignited a revolution with a single, devastating question: why are so many American women deeply unhappy? The Feminine Mystique chronicles the pervasive post-war cultural myth that a woman's ultimate fulfilment lay exclusively in domesticity — in being a devoted wife, a nurturing mother, and the perfect homemaker. Friedan exposes the institutional forces — from women's magazines and Freudian psychology to advertising and higher education — that conspired to confine women to the suburbs and silence their intellectual and professional ambitions. The result is a portrait of quiet desperation that Friedan memorably calls the problem that has no name. A landmark of 20th-century feminist thought, The Feminine Mystique argues with rigour and passion that women are systematically denied the right to a full human identity. Friedan's prose is both journalistic and deeply personal, weaving together sociological research, historical analysis, and intimate interviews to build an irrefutable case. The book is widely credited with sparking the second wave of feminism, reshaping American society in ways that continue to reverberate today. For anyone seeking to understand the origins of modern gender politics, this essential text asks an uncomfortable question that still demands an answer.