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The feminine mystique
Author
Title
The feminine mystique / Betty Friedan ; [introduction by Gail Collins ; afterword by Anna Quindlen].
ISBN
9780393063790 (hbk.)
0393063798 (hbk.)
Edition
50th anniversary ed.
Published
New York : W. W. Norton & Company, c2013.
Physical Description
xxv, 562 p. ; 25 cm.
Summary
A fiftieth anniversary edition of the trailblazing women's reference shares anecdotes and interviews that were originally collected in the early 1960s to inspire women to develop their intellectual capabilities and reclaim lives beyond period conventions.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 24, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The problem that has no name
The happy housewife heroine
The crisis in woman's identity
The passionate journey
The sexual solipsism of Sigmund Freud
The functional freeze, the feminine protest, and Margaret Mead
The sex-directed educators
The mistaken choice
The sexual sell
Housewifery expands to fill the time available
The sex-seekers
Progressive dehumanization : the comfortable concentration camp
The forfeited self
A new life plan for women.
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