The Feminine Mystique - Softcover

Friedan, Betty

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140224084 ISBN 13: 9780140224085

Publisher: Penguin, 1982

Synopsis

First published in 1963, "The Feminine Mystique" ignited a revolution that profoundly changed our culture, our consciousness, and our lives. Today it newly penetrates to the heart of issues determining our lives - and sounds a call to arms against the very real dangers of a new feminine mystique in the economic and political turbulence of the 1990s.

About this title

Review:

The book that pulled the trigger on history. --Alvin Toffler, author of "Future Shock"

About the Author:

Betty Friedan (1921-2006) is hailed by historians as a seminal figure in the 'Second Wave' of the women's feminist movement. In 1957, Friedan wrote a questionnaire for her former classmates at a reunion at the all-female, Smith College. The results revealed that many women shared the same frustrations as her in their roles as housewives and mothers. Friedan's findings provided a clear-eyed analysis of the issues that affected women's lives in the decades after the Second World War, and became the basis to her book, The Feminine Mystique. A sensation on publication selling over 3 million copies, it established Friedan as one of the chief architects of the women's liberation movement.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0140224084
• ISBN 13: 9780140224085
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368