Released for the first time in paperback, this landmark social and political volume on feminism is credited with being responsible for raising awareness, liberating both sexes, and triggering major advances in the feminist movement. Reprint.
When Betty Friedan produced The Feminine Mystiquein 1963, she could not have realized how the discovery and debate of her contemporaries' general malaise would shake up society.
... 1991); Nancy Polikoff, Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families Under the Law (Boston: Beacon, 2008); Lis Wiehl, The 51% Minority (New York: Ballantine Books, 2007); Victor Brooks, Boomers: The Cold War Generation ...
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...
This 50th–anniversary edition features an afterword by best-selling author Anna Quindlen as well as a new introduction by Gail Collins.
On the way depictions of the Rosenbergs were highly gendered , see Virginia Carmichael , Framing History : The Rosenberg Story and the Cold War ( Minneapolis , 1993 ) , 103. On the responses of some Jews to the case , see Deborah D.
Representative Lynn Martin , who took Anderson's Congressional seat in Illinois , when asked how she rated women's issues on her agenda , answered , " Zip . ... There isn't any politician , male or female , who likes these issues ...
She convinced the Secretary General of the United Nations to declare 1975 the International Year of the Woman. In this volume, Friedan brings to extraordinary life her bold and contentious leadership in the movement.
In Success and Solitude, the women's movement as a national social movement is critiqued and analyzed at an organizational level. Book jacket.
"Contains a section of scholarship on The feminine mystique, with excerpts from many prominent historians, including Daniel Horowitz, Joanne Meyerowitz, Ruth Rosen, and Stephanie Coontz, amont others." --Back cover.
Now, A Jewish Feminine Mystique? examines how Jewish women sought opportunities and created images that defied the stereotypes and prescriptive ideology of the "feminine mystique.