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When Betty Friedan produced The Feminine Mystique in 1963, she could not
have realized how the discovery and debate of her contemporaries'' general
malaise would shake up society. Victims of a false belief system, these
women were following strict social convention by loyally conforming to the
pretty image of the magazines, and found themselves forced to seek meaning
in their lives only through a family and a home. Friedan''s controversial
book about these women – and every woman – would ultimately set Second Wave
feminism in motion and begin the battle for equality. This groundbreaking
and life-changing work remains just as powerful, important and true as it
was forty-five years ago, and is essential reading both as a historical
document and as a study of women living in a man''s world. ''One of the most
influential nonfiction books of the twentieth century.'' New York Times
''Feminism …… began with the work of a single person: Friedan.'' Nicholas
Lemann With a new Introduction by Lionel Shriver
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