The Feminine Mystique: Annotated Text, Contexts, Scolarship (50th Anniversary Edition)

Friedan, Betty

ISBN 10: 0393934659 / ISBN 13: 9780393934656

Published by W.W. Norton, New York, 2013

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8vo, 529 pp., A Norton Critical Edition edited by Kirsten Fermaglich & Lisa Fine. Seller Inventory # 110733

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Feminine Mystique: Annotated Text, ...

Publisher: W.W. Norton, New York

Publication Date: 2013

Binding: softcover

Condition: Fine copy

Edition: 1st.

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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.

Review:

The book that pulled the trigger on history. -- Alvin Toffler

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

[The Feminine Mystique] now feels both revolutionary and utterly contemporary. . . . Four decades later, millions of individual transformations later, there is still so much to learn from this book. . . . Those who think of it as solely a feminist manifesto ought to revisit its pages to get a sense of the magnitude of the research and reporting Friedan undertook.--Anna Quindlen

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

One of those rare books we are endowed with only once in several decades.--Amitai Etzioni, author of "The Spirit of Community: The Reinvention of American Society"

[A] bridge between conservative and radical elements in feminism, an ardent advocate of harmony and human values.--Marilyn French