The Feminine Mystique (50th Anniversary Edition)

The Feminine Mystique (50th Anniversary Edition)

Betty Friedan

Language: English

Pages: 592

ISBN: 0393346781

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


“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.

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similarity that emerged in their case histories was the fact that they had abandoned their education below the level of their ability. The sufferers were the ones who quit high school or college; more often than comparable women their age, they had started college—and left, usually after a year.10 Many also had come from “the more restrictive ethnic groups” (Italian or Jewish) or from small towns in the South where “women were protected and kept dependent.” Most had not pursued either education

actress. It was too late to go back to that. I stayed in the house all day, cleaning things I hadn’t cleaned in years. I spent a lot of time just crying. My husband and I talked about its being an American woman’s problem, how you give up a career for the children, and then you reach a point where you can’t go back. I felt so envious of the few women I know who had a definite skill and kept working at it. My dream of being an actress wasn’t real—I didn’t work at it. Did I have to throw my whole

in which they have no real will to achieve and a world of their own in which they find it hard to be fulfilled. . . . When Walt Whitman exhorted women “to give up toys and fictions and launch forth, as men do, amid real, independent, stormy life,” he was thinking—as were many of his contemporaries—of the wrong kind of equalitarianism. . . . If she is to discover her identity, she must start by basing her belief in herself on her womanliness rather than on the movement for feminism. Margaret Mead

gynecological health problems, 318–19, 320–21 Haener, Dorothy, 462 Hale, Nancy, 50 happiness: consumerism as source of, 258 education levels vs., 397–98 of married vs. unmarried women, 14 Hart, Peter, 500 Hartmann, Heinz, 373 Harvard Graduate School of Education, 539n “Have a Good Time, Dear,” 31 Hedrick, Joan D., 505 Heide, Wilma, 467–68 help-wanted ads, sex-segregated, 467 Hernandez, Aileen, 462–63 heroines: career women as, 29–33, 37, 48, 49, 518n housewives as, 33–41, 47–48,

large, do not expect to achieve fame, make an enduring contribution to society, pioneer any frontiers, or otherwise create ripples in the placid order of things. . . . Not only is spinsterhood viewed as a personal tragedy but offspring are considered essential to the full life and the Vassar student believes that she would willingly adopt children, if it were necessary, to create a family. In short, her future identity is largely encompassed by the projected role of wife-mother. . . . In

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