![]() ![]() ![]() This 50th–anniversary edition features an afterword by best-selling author Anna Quindlen as well as a new introduction by Gail Collins. The following excerpt is a revelation of how Friedan vigorously espoused feminist principles, long before she penned The Feminine Mystique.A link to a 39-page pamphlet she wrote in 1952 called UE Fights for Women Workers is at the conclusion of this passage. Part social chronicle, part manifesto, The Feminine Mystique is filled with fascinating anecdotes and interviews as well as insights that continue to inspire. Writing in a time when the average woman first married in her teens and 60 percent of women students dropped out of college to marry, Betty Friedan captured the frustrations and thwarted ambitions of a generation and showed women how they could reclaim their lives. Fine, a historian at Michigan State University and a co-editor of the first. Published in 1963, it gave a pitch-perfect description of "the problem that has no name": the insidious beliefs and institutions that undermined women's confidence in their intellectual capabilities and kept them in the home. The Feminine Mystique tends to be hailed simply as the book that started second-wave feminism, said Lisa M. Landmark, groundbreaking, classic-these adjectives barely do justice to the pioneering vision and lasting impact of The Feminine Mystique. Landmark, groundbreaking, classicthese adjectives barely do justice to the pioneering vision and lasting impact of The Feminine Mystique. "If you've never read it, read it now." -Arianna Huffington, O, The Oprah Magazine A 50th-anniversary edition of the trailblazing book that changed women’s lives, with a new introduction by Gail Collins. ![]()
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