This 50th–anniversary edition features an afterword by best-selling author Anna Quindlen as well as a new introduction by Gail Collins. Part social chronicle, part manifesto, The Feminine Mystique is filled with fascinating anecdotes and interviews as well as insights that continue to inspire.

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. 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. As Graddy notes, it focuses on the aspirations of certain white college-educated. empower Disney princesses who meet for their monthly book club as they read from the thought provoking book, The Feminine Mystique. The Feminine Mystique book and it’s consequences have been a disaster for women. Looking back on Friedan’s seminal book, The Feminine Mystique, its narrow scope is important to recognize. “If you’ve never read it, read it now.”-Arianna Huffington, O, The Oprah MagazineLandmark, groundbreaking, classic-these adjectives barely do justice to the pioneering vision and lasting impact of The Feminine Mystique. All the evidence shows women are happier under the patriarchy. Presents a reissue of the 1963 text which sparked the feminist movement through its analysis of the changing role and status of women, and includes an. 4 A widely popular book on women in modern America was called 'The Feminine Mystique.' It was written by Betty Friedan and published in nineteen sixty-three.

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