Book

The Feminine Mystique

Betty Friedan

1963

W. W. Norton & Co.

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Book Review

What Betty Friedan Knew

Judge the author of the “Feminine Mystique” not by the gains she made, but by her experience.

by Hermione Hoby via The New Republic
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on December 1, 2023
Longread

The Abandonment of Betty Friedan

What does the academy have against the mother of second-wave feminism?

by Rachel Shteir via The Chronicle of Higher Education
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on September 11, 2023
Comparison

Reading Betty Friedan After the Fall of Roe

The problem no longer has no name, and yet we refuse to solve it.

by Tis Lyz via Men Yell At Me on September 21, 2022
Explainer

The Powerful, Complicated Legacy of Betty Friedan's 'The Feminine Mystique'

The acclaimed reformer stoked the white, middle-class feminist movement and brought critical understanding to a “problem that had no name”

by Jacob Muñoz via Smithsonian Magazine on February 4, 2021

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Andrew Yang and the Failson Mystique

America has already witnessed the largest UBI experiment known to history — the postwar middle-class housewife. And she was utterly miserable.

by Amber A'Lee Frost via Jacobin on September 19, 2019

Women's liberation movement demonstrating in Washington D.C.

The Waves of Feminism, and Why People Keep Fighting Over Them, Explained

If you have no idea which wave of feminism we’re in right now, read this.

by Constance Grady via Vox on March 20, 2018

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