Throughout The Feminine Mystique — a term she used to describe the insistence th. at women adhere to traditionally "feminine" roles — Friedan lists a variety of reasons for a woman's identity ...

Betty Friedan's 1963 book The Feminine Mystique helped drive the modern women's movement. The author and activist died Saturday of congestive heart failure. She was 85. Harvard historian Nancy ...

The Feminine Mystique has been credited—or blamed—for destroying, single-handedly and almost overnight, the 1950s consensus that women’s place was in the home.

The 400-page "Feminine Mystique" was "in some ways the first self-help book for women," according to Coontz. "It's dated, but that is its very relevance." "For most women today, ...

The other feminine mystique. Heart disease research has been disproportionately focused on men, a practice that should be questioned. by Abby Bar-Lev. Published February 6, 2006. On her 85th birthday ...

The Feminine Mystique is regularly listed among the most influential non-fiction books of the 20th century, alongside classics like the conservationist Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.

Tradwives, stay-at-home girlfriends and the dream of feminine leisure. Some young women see patriarchy as a solution, not a problem. What in ‘The Feminine Mystique’ is going on here?

The Feminine Mystique is more concerned with the latter. Women are more legally emancipated than in 1963. The question is how far short of true freedom emancipation still falls.

When Betty Friedan published “The Feminine Mystique” in 1963, she set fire to a simmering discontent among millions of American women, blowing up the myth that feminine fulfillment began and ...