The feminine mystique

Betty Friedan

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When Betty Friedan produced The Feminine Mystique in 1963, she could not have realized how the discovery and debate of her contemporaries' general malaise would shake up society. Victims of a false belief system, these women were following strict social convention by loyally conforming to the pretty image of the magazines, and found themselves forced to seek meaning in their lives only through a family and a home. Friedan's book about these women would ultimately set Second Wave feminism in motion and begin the battle for equality.

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Metamorphosis: Two Generations Later Twenty Years After Introduction to the Tenth Anniversary Adition 3 Preface and Acknowledgments 9 1 The Problem That Has No Name 15 2 The Happy Housewife Heroine 33 3 The Crisis in Woman's Identity 69 4 The Passionate Journey 80 5 The Sexual Solipsism of Sigmund Freud 103 6 The Functional Freeze, the Feminine Protest, and Margaret Mead 126 7 The Sex-Directed Educators 150 8 The Mistaken Choice 182 9 The Sexual Sell 206 10 Housewifery Expands to Fill the Time Available 233 11 The Sex-Seekers 258 12 Progressive Dehumanization: The Comfortable Concentration Camp 282 13 The Forfeited Self 310 14 A New Life Plan for Women 338 Epilogue 379 Thoughts on Becoming a Grandmother 397 Notes 419 Index 445