If that's what you think this is about, my review isn't going to change your mind so you might as well just go shoot a ruffled grouse and make your woman cook it for you. Let's clear something up right now - The Feminine Mystique is not a text on how to become a man-hating, radical, hairy-armpitted lesbian. It's because of her that you even have that opportunity to make that choice. I want you to give a little fist-bump to the heavens in honor of Betty Friedan. Ladies, the next time you decide you don't want to cook dinner that night, that you'd rather read a book instead. This 50th–anniversary edition features an afterword by best-selling author Anna Quindlen as well as a new introduction by Gail Collins. Part social chronicle, part manifesto, The Feminine Mystique is filled with fascinating anecdotes and interviews as well as insights that continue to inspire.
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. 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. She remained active in politics and advocacy for the rest of her life."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. She was a founder of the National Organization for Women, a convener of the National Women’s Political Caucus, and a key leader in the struggle for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment.įriedan published The Fountain of Aging in 1993 and was co-chair of Women, Men and Media, a gender-based research organization that conducts research on gender and the media.
The book made an enormous impact, triggering a period of change that continues today.įriedan was central to this evolution for women, through lectures and writing ( It Changed My Life: Writings on the Women’s Movement in 1976 and The Second Stage in 1981).
Through decades of social activism, strategic thinking and powerful writing, Friedan is one of contemporary society’s most effective leaders.įriedan’s l963 book, The Feminine Mystique, detailed the frustrating lives of countless American women who were expected to find fulfillment primarily through the achievements of husbands and children. Betty Friedan has been central to the reshaping of American attitudes toward women’s lives and rights.
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