The Feminine Mystique - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Feminine Mystique write by Betty Friedan. This book was released on 2001-09-17. The Feminine Mystique available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book that changed the consciousness of a country—and the world. Landmark, groundbreaking, classic—these adjectives barely describe the earthshaking and long-lasting effects of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. This is the book that defined "the problem that has no name," that launched the Second Wave of the feminist movement, and has been awakening women and men with its insights into social relations, which still remain fresh, ever since. A national bestseller, with over 1 million copies sold.
The Feminine Mystique
The Feminine Mystique - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Feminine Mystique write by Betty Friedan. This book was released on 2010. The Feminine Mystique available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Betty Friedan produced The Feminine Mystique in 1963, she could not have realized how the discovery and debate of her contemporaries' general malaise would shake up society. Victims of a false belief system, these women were following strict social convention by loyally conforming to the pretty image of the magazines, and found themselves forced to seek meaning in their lives only through a family and a home. Friedan's controversial book about these women - and every woman - would ultimately set Second Wave feminism in motion and begin the battle for equality. This groundbreaking and life-changing work remains just as powerful, important and true as it was forty-five years ago, and is essential reading both as a historical document and as a study of women living in a man's world. 'One of the most influential nonfiction books of the twentieth century.' New York Times 'Feminism ...... began with the work of a single person: Friedan.' Nicholas Lemann With a new Introduction by Lionel Shriver
The Feminine Mystique (50th Anniversary Edition)
The Feminine Mystique (50th Anniversary Edition) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Feminine Mystique (50th Anniversary Edition) write by Betty Friedan. This book was released on 2013-02-11. The Feminine Mystique (50th Anniversary Edition) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “If you’ve never read it, read it now.”—Arianna Huffington, O, The Oprah Magazine Landmark, groundbreaking, classic—these adjectives barely do justice to the pioneering vision and lasting impact of The Feminine Mystique. 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. 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. Part social chronicle, part manifesto, The Feminine Mystique is filled with fascinating anecdotes and interviews as well as insights that continue to inspire. This 50th–anniversary edition features an afterword by best-selling author Anna Quindlen as well as a new introduction by Gail Collins.
A Strange Stirring
A Strange Stirring - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Strange Stirring write by Stephanie Coontz. This book was released on 2011-01-04. A Strange Stirring available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1963, Betty Friedan unleashed a storm of controversy with her bestselling book, The Feminine Mystique. Hundreds of women wrote to her to say that the book had transformed, even saved, their lives. Nearly half a century later, many women still recall where they were when they first read it. In A Strange Stirring, historian Stephanie Coontz examines the dawn of the 1960s, when the sexual revolution had barely begun, newspapers advertised for "perky, attractive gal typists," but married women were told to stay home, and husbands controlled almost every aspect of family life. Based on exhaustive research and interviews, and challenging both conservative and liberal myths about Friedan, A Strange Stirring brilliantly illuminates how a generation of women came to realize that their dissatisfaction with domestic life didn't't reflect their personal weakness but rather a social and political injustice.
Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique
Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique write by Daniel Horowitz. This book was released on 2000. Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An examination of the development of Betty Friedan's feminist outlook. Horowitz (American studies, Smith College) looks at Friedan's life from her childhood in Peoria, Illinois through her wartime years at Smith College and Berkeley, to her decade-long career as a writer for two radical labor journals, the Federated Press and the United Electrical Workers' UE News. He argues that this history, combined with the fact that Friedan continued to work on behalf of many social causes after her marriage, contradicts Friedan's claim that her commitment to women's rights grew solely out of her experience as an alienated suburban housewife. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
