Feminine Mystique, The
Friedan, Betty
Sold by Past Pages, Oshawa, ON, Canada
AbeBooks Seller since 2 January 2008
Used - Soft cover
Condition: Used - Good
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketSold by Past Pages, Oshawa, ON, Canada
AbeBooks Seller since 2 January 2008
Condition: Used - Good
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketRepaired; Moderate Creasing on Front Cover, Spine; Light Creasing on Rear Cover; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Moderately Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Moisture Damage (Staining, Rippling from First Page of Front Matter to Page 28-29ish); Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. OVER 1 MILLION IN PRINT. THE YEAR'S MOST CONTROVERSIAL BESTSELLER. BOOK NUMBER: 2498. CONTENTS: Preface and Acknowledgments; ONE The Problem That Has No Name; TWO The Happy Housewife Heroine; THREE The Crisis in Woman's Identity; FOUR The Passionate Journey; FIVE The Sexual Solipsism of Sigmund Freud; SIX The Functional Freeze, The Feminine Protest, and Margaret Mead; SEVEN The Sex-Directed Educators; EIGHT The Mistaken Choice; NINE The Sexual Sell; TEN Housewifery Expands to Fill the Time Available; ELEVEN The Sex-Seekers; TWELVE Progressive Dehumanization: The Comfortable Concentration Camp; THIRTEEN The Forfeited Self; FOURTEEN A New Life Plan for Women; Notes; Index. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Betty Friedan was graduated summa cum laude from Smith College and has worked as a clinical psychologist. Married and the mother of three children, her writings have appeared in such periodicals as Harper's, Good Housekeeping, McCall's and Reader's Digest. EXCERPT: PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Gradually, without seeing it clearly for quite a while, I came to realize that something is very wrong with the way American women are trying to live their lives today. I sensed it first as a question mark in my own life, as a wife and mother of three small children, half-guiltily, and therefore half-heartedly, almost in spite of myself, using my abilities and education in work that took me away from home . . . REVIEWS: "Betty Friedan has, in my opinion, gone straight to the heart of the problem of the American woman."--Pearl S. Buck. "A damning indictment of the . . . pressures which have caused a harmful discrepancy between what women really are and what they are told they should be . . . Mrs. Friedan charts a course for women . . . Her suggestions are not only sensible but mandatory."--Marya Mannes, New York Herald Tribune. "A serious and important book. Its implications are terrifying . . . a 'must' for all who are concerned with marriage and family life, or who care about the future of our society."--Millicent G. McIntosh, President Emeritus, Barnard College. "The book we have been waiting for . . . the wisest, sanest, soundest, most understanding and compassionate treatment of contemporary American woman's greatest problem . . . a triumph."--Ashley Montagu. "Absorbingly interesting, pertinent, relevant to my own problems and those of every woman I know, and far and away more real, truer and more moving than Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex . . . Betty Friedan has done a great service in underlining the fact that before we are women, we are human beings."--Virgilia Peterson. "Written with a passionate drive . . . It will leave you with some haunting facts as well as hair-raising stories . . . I did not find one dull chapter in the book."--Lillian Smith, Saturday Review. "An angry, thoroughly documented book that in one way or another is going to provoke the daylights out of almost everyone who reads it."--Life Magazine. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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