false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169178015m/38723.jpg 38723 18 The book that changed the consciousness of a country&#151;and the world. Landmark, groundbreaking, classic&#151;these adjectives barely describe the earthshaking and long-lasting effects of Betty Friedan's <I>The Feminine Mystique</I>. This is the book that defined "the problem that has no name," that launched the Second Wave of the feminist movement, and has been awakening women and men with its insights into social relations, which still remain fresh, ever since. A national bestseller, with over 1 million copies sold. 809732 1963 The Feminine Mystique total:2079|5:473|4:751|3:632|2:175|1:48| 2079 7663 3591 263 3 3 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 19 05:33:56 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 11 06:57:19 -0700 2007
i think the reason to read this book is to gain an understanding of feminism in the mid-century Zietgiest. It gave me some things to think about, despite being hopelessly outdated and terribly repetitiv...more...]]> 1 4 false false Mon Feb 04 15:17:18 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 04 15:19:33 -0800 2008
However, before you look at my one-star rating and write this review off entirely, I want it to be known that this book has great value. I recommend this book. It definitely, absolutely, got me to thinking about life, MY life, wome...more...]]> 2 2 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 11:25:05 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 11:40:07 -0700 2008
that said, it is important to note that the book was written in 1963 a...more...]]> 5 3 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1977 Sun Feb 17 18:28:00 -0800 2008 Tue Sep 08 06:56:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 3 false false Wed Apr 25 07:59:27 -0700 2007 Wed Apr 25 08:07:05 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Feb 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 07:30:38 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 08:18:08 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 17 04:20:15 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 05 07:43:14 -0700 2008 Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique is to feminism as Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring is to environmentalism: works that defined a movement and changed the world so profoundly that the worlds described within them seem alien to my modern eyes.

Some things, of course, haven’t chan...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Mar 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 06:26:24 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 06:26:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 12:09:30 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 13:05:39 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 19:29:44 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 19:58:11 -0800 2009 Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique much more than I thought I would. Friedan's book has it's roots in the 1950s, which is incredibly obvious, and, thus, some of her arguments are very outdated. Friedan's books grew out of the 1950's idea that women would be most fulfilled if th...more...]]> 5 0 false true Wed Oct 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 06:54:18 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 06:54:18 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Apr 25 09:05:12 -0700 2007 Wed Apr 25 09:08:42 -0700 2007 Gloria Steinem...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat May 02 13:52:06 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 14:02:31 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jun 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 14:38:11 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 07:28:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Mon May 04 16:12:09 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 16:21:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Nov 15 14:29:01 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 14:33:55 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995 Tue Nov 25 12:32:08 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 12:32:08 -0800 2008
It seems ridiculously trite and outdated now, an...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2001 Thu May 21 09:45:42 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 13:53:53 -0700 2009 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792. The feminist movement made only slight gains during the 19th century, and the next big treatise was Frenchwoman Simone de Beauvoir's 1946 The Second Sex (also translated sometimes as The Other Se...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon May 25 16:27:35 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 16:30:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Nov 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 14:17:41 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 14:25:52 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=38723