The Feminine Mystique-Betty-Friedan

Part social chronicle, part manifesto, The Feminine Mystique is filled with fascinating anecdotes and interviews as well as insights that continue to inspire. This 50th–anniversary edition features an afterword by best-selling author Anna Quindlen as well as a new introduction by Gail Collins

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This article focuses on the status of women as a standard of civilization by examining its emergence in the 19th-century European ‘society of civilized states.’ More specifically, the article centers on expectations about the proper political role of women and how these operated as a standard to distinguish ‘civilized’ states from other societies. The article […]

The combination of theoretical ambition and wit in The Dialectic of Sex is as refreshing as ever. No one can understand how feminism has evolved without reading this radical, inflammatory second-wave landmark. The Dialectic of Sex is a must-have for those interested in feminist theory.

The Dialectic of Sex is a must-have for those interested in feminist theory, both past and present. It’s reappearance now, during yet another period of ‘ridicule’ towards women’s rights, is perhaps even more pertinent than its first publication.

The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884), was a provocative and profoundly influential critique of the Victorian nuclear family. Engels argued that the traditional monogamous household was in fact a recent construct, closely bound up with capitalist societies.

Sexual Politics is the debut book by American writer and activist Kate Millett, based on her PhD dissertation at Columbia University.[] It was published in 1970 by Doubleday. It is regarded as a classic of feminism and one of radical feminism’s key texts, a formative piece in shaping the intentions of the second-wave feminist movement. In Sexual Politics, an explicit focus is placed on male […]

As this book enters its fourth edition, it’s been adopted widely around the coun try and translated into several languages. It’s personally gratifying, of course, but more gratifying is the embrace of the book’s vision of a world in which gender inequal ity is but a distant anachronism, and a serious intellectual confrontation with gender […]

With each new edition of Thinking about Women, there is an opportunity to reflect on changes in the status of women and men in society. News headlines and popular books proclaim various changes—that “The End of Men” is near or that women need to “Lean In” to find success in hitherto men’s worlds. Various commentators […]