Published in 1963, THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE is generally agreed to be the book that launched the women's liberation movement. In her groundbreaking study, Betty Friedan writes of her experiences as a wife and mother in the 1950s, and her growing sense of frustration with the idealized postwar concept of the perfect nuclear family--Dad in a business ...
Betty Friedan launches a new revolution with this powerful, bestselling book breaking through the American mystique of aging as decline. Through hundreds of interviews, Friedan confronts our denial and demolishes society's compassionate contempt--to offer a vision of what can be embraced.
In this memoir, the author of THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE--which many see as the beginning of the women's liberation movement--writes of her childhood in Peoria, Illinois, her college years at Smith, and her early struggles as a female reporter and a wife in the '50s. She tells how THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE was written and how the women's movement grew and ...
In "Beyond Gender", Betty Friedan continues her struggle to show how philosophy can shape social policy. She focuses on the ways the workplace has not kept up with changes in the workforce and the needs of parents in the '90s and beyond.
The perfect Mother's Day gift to celebrate the new face of aging--beautifully illustrated profiles of today's 50-something women who are redefining attitudes, revisioning the future, and reshaping our world. Includes interviews with Gloria Steinem, Ellen Burstyn, Isabel Allende, Mary Ellen Mark, and many others. Photographs.
First published in 1981, this book argues that much of what is called new thinking in feminism has been observed and argued before. Warning the women's movement against dissolving into factionialism, male-bashing and preoccupation with sexual and identity politics rather than "bottom-line" political and economic inequalities, Betty Friedan argues ...
Suitable as a Mother's Day gift to celebrate the new face of aging, this book gives positive images of 50-something women, redefining attitudes and reshaping the world. In interviews with women, from a single-parent school teacher and celebrities Gloria Steinem, Ellen Burstyn and Isabel Allende, it offers intimate portraits of 18 women who show ...
"It Changed My Life" comes after Friedan's classic "The Feminine Mystique", and before "The Second Stage", which together form a trilogy of her feminist thought. This book addresses Friedan's experiences as an organizer, and includes speeches and position papers from the National Organization of Women, which she co-founded. Also included are her ...
"It Changed My Life" comes after Friedan's classic "The Feminine Mystique", and before "The Second Stage", which together form a trilogy of her feminist thought. This book addresses Friedan's experiences as an organizer, and includes speeches and position papers from the National Organization of Women, which she co-founded. Also included are her ...
This text explores women's rights and related issues from the shortage of women in colonial America to the current fissures in the women's movement. A range of topics is discussed, including changing attitudes towards sex and marriage, the suffrage movement, the role of women in the world wars.
The title of this book reflects what the author heard after the publication of her book "The Feminine Mystique". It helped women put a name to the sense of invisibility, powerlessness, and depression that Betty Friedan called "the problem that has no name". First published in 1976, it is a collection of reports from the days less than a generation ...
"The Second Stage", first published in 1981, follows "The Feminine Mystique" and "It changed My Life" in Friedan's trilogy of feminist writings. It is comprised of articles, essays, addresses, and reviews, and focuses on a struggle not yet won. She acknowledges gains and successes of the women's movement, but sees a greater challenge, one of ...
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Date Published: 1993
Description: Good in Good jacket. 8vo. Dj is slightly scuffed and clean. Cover is clean, bumped and has gilt stamp on spine. Pages are clean and tight. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Edtitions Gonthier collection femme
Date Published: 1964
Description: Near Fine. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Paperbacks. Tight and square. Pages tanned. Light edgewear. 239 and 212 pages. Text in French. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: M Joseph
Date Published: 21/06/1982
ISBN-13:9780718121396ISBN:0718121392
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