The Feminine Mystique

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W. W. Norton & Company, Sep 17, 2001 - Psychology - 430 pages
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.
 

Contents

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17
The Problem That Has No Name
57
The Happy Housewife Heroine
81
The Crisis in Womans Identity
125
The Passionate Journey
137
The Sexual Solipsism of Sigmund Freud
169
The SexDirected Educators
227
The Mistaken Choice
268
The Comfortable
393
The Forfeited Self
429
A New Life Plan for Women
463
Epilogue
513
Notes
533
The Functional Freeze the Feminine Protest
538
Index
559
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563

The Sexual Sell
298
Housewifery Expands to Fill the Time Available
333
The SexSeekers
362
195
576
Reading Group Guide
585
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Betty Friedan (1921–2006), a transformational leader of the women’s movement, founded the National Organization for Women (NOW) and authored many works, including The Second Stage, The Fountain of Age, and Life So Far.

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