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

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 […]