FEMININE MYSTIQUE (INTRO: QUINDLEN)

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• ISBN13: 9780393040494
• ISBN10: 0393040496
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1997-01-01
• Publisher: NORTON

Summary

Here, reissued with a new introduction, is Betty Friedan's seminal work, a book filled with ideas and inspirations as vital to women today as when it ignited the modern women's movement. First published in 1963, The Feminine Mystique launched a revolution that profoundly changed our culture, our consciousness, and our lives. Today it penetrates anew to the heart of issues determining our livesand sounds a call to arms against the real dangers of a new feminine mystique in the economic and political turbulence of the 1990s. As Betty Friedan observes, "the changes which the women's movement set in motion continue to play themselves out in our livesthe enormous and mundane, subtle and not-so-subtle, delightful, painful, immediate, far-reaching, paradoxical, inexorable and probably irreversible changes in women's lives, and men's." More than three decades later, the underlying issues raised by Friedan strike at the core of the challenges women still face at home and in the marketplace. As women continue to struggle for equality, to keep their hard-won gains, to find fulfillment in careers, marriage, and family, The Feminine Mystique remains a profound consciousness-raising work of our times.

Table of Contents

Metamorphosis: Two Generations Later	ix
Twenty Years After	xxix
Introduction to the Tenth Anniversary Edition	3	(6)
Preface and Acknowledgments	9	(6)
The Problem That Has No Name	15	(18)
The Happy Housewife Heroine	33	(36)
The Crisis in Woman's Identity	69	(11)
The Passionate Journey	80	(23)
The Sexual Solipsism of Sigmund Freud	103	(23)
The Functional Freeze, the Feminine Protest, and Margaret Mead	126	(24)
The Sex-Directed Educators	150	(32)
The Mistaken Choice	182	(24)
The Sexual Sell	206	(27)
Housewifery Expands to Fill the Time Available	233	(25)
The Sex-Seekers	258	(24)
Progressive Dehumanization: The Comfortable Concentration Camp	282	(28)
The Forfeited Self	310	(28)
A New Life Plan for Women	338	(41)
Epilogue	379	(18)
Thoughts on Becoming a Grandmother	397	(22)
Notes	419	(26)
Index	445