![]() ![]() The text of The Feminine Mystique is accompanied by an introduction and is fully annotated. This Norton Critical Edition of Friedan's phenomenal book traces its cultural and historical significance over its first fifty years. This image, Friedan suggested, created a "feminine mystique, " a belief that "fulfillment as a woman had only one definition for American women after 1949-the housewife-mother." The book soon became a national best seller, with over a million copies sold. Drawing on new scholarship in the social sciences, Betty Friedan attacked a wide range of institutions-among them women's magazines, women's colleges, and advertisers-for promoting a one-dimensional image of women as happy housewives. The Feminine Mystique (1963) is a powerful critique of women's roles in contemporary American society. Progressive dehumanization: the comfortable concentration camp.Housewifery expands to fill the time available.The functional freeze, the feminine protest, and Margaret Mead. ![]() Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. ![]()
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