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Book · 1958 · Nonfiction

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

Simone de Beauvoir
Harper Perennial Modern Classics (HarperCollins) · 384 pages
★ 6.5 editorial score

Beauvoir rebuilds the pious Paris girlhood she fought her way out of, and sets against her own escape the fate of Zaza, the friend whose family refused her the man she loved.

Setting
France
Time
1958Depicts 20th century

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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