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The feminine mystique / Betty Friedan.

Friedan, Betty. (Author).

Summary:

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.--amazon.com.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0393084361
  • ISBN: 9780393084368
  • Physical Description: 410 pages ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [1963]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-404) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Problem that has no name -- Happy housewife heroine -- Crisis in woman's identity -- Passionate journey -- Sexual solipsism of Sigmund Freud -- Functional freeze, the feminine protest and Margaret Mead -- Sex-directed educators -- Mistaken choice -- Sexual sell -- Housewifery expands to fill the time available -- Sex-seekers -- Progressive dehumanization : the comfortable concentration camp -- Forfeited self -- New life plan for women.
Subject:
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
Feminism > United States.
Women > United States > Social conditions.
Women > Psychology.
United States > Social conditions > 1945-
Women > United States.
Women > Social and moral questions.
Feminism.
Social conditions
Women > Psychology.
Women > Social conditions.
United States.
Feminism -- United States.
Women -- United States -- Social conditions.
Women -- Psychology.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
Women.
Psychology.
Genre:
Authors' inscriptions (Provenance)

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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Lummi Library HQ 1420 .F75 1963 249388 Stacks Available -