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Book · 1963 · Nonfiction

The Feminine Mystique

Betty Friedan
Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 592 pages
★ 6.5 editorial score

Friedan named the ache of the educated housewife: the problem that has no name. Three million readers found their own lives in it, and she went on to lead the movement they built.

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1963Depicts 1950s

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“The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night-she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-"Is this all?"”

Betty Friedan