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The Feminine Mystique

by Betty Friedan

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ISBN13: 9780393322576
ISBN10: 0393322572
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Publisher Comments:

First published in 1963, "The Feminine Mystique" ignited a revolution that profoundly changed culture, consciousness, and lives. Today it newly penetrates to the heart of issues determining--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.

Synopsis:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-422) and index.

Table of Contents

Metamorphosis: two generations later — Twenty years after — Problem that has no name — Happy housewife heroine — Crisis in woman's identity — Passionate journey — Sexual solipsism of Sigmund Freud — Functional freeze, the feminine protest, and Margaret Mead — Sex-directed educators — Mistake choice — Sexual sell — Housewifery expands to fill the time available — Sex-seekers — Progressive dehumanization: the comfortable concentration camp — Forfeited self — New life plan for women.

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ISBN:
9780393322576
Introduction:
Quindlen, Anna
Author:
Quindlen, Anna
Author:
Friedan, Betty
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Location:
New York
Subject:
Women
Subject:
Women's Studies
Subject:
Feminism & Feminist Theory
Subject:
Feminism
Subject:
Women's Studies - General
Edition Description:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series Volume:
no. 2002-1232-1
Publication Date:
September 2001
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
430
Dimensions:
8.21x5.54x1.10 in. 1.14 lbs.
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