Publisher's Synopsis
Here, reissued with a new introduction, is Betty Friedan's seminal work, a book filled with ideas and inspirations as vital to women today as when it ignited the modern women's movement. First published in 1963, The Feminine Mystique launched a revolution that profoundly changed our culture, our consciousness, and our lives. Today it penetrates anew to the heart of issues determining our livesand sounds a call to arms against the real dangers of a new feminine mystique in the economic and political turbulence of the 1990s. As Betty Friedan observes, "the changes which the women's movement set in motion continue to play themselves out in our livesthe enormous and mundane, subtle and not-so-subtle, delightful, painful, immediate, far-reaching, paradoxical, inexorable and probably irreversible changes in women's lives, and men's." More than three decades later, the underlying issues raised by Friedan strike at the core of the challenges women still face at home and in the marketplace. As women continue to struggle for equality, to keep their hard-won gains, to find fulfillment in careers, marriage, and family, The Feminine Mystique remains a profound consciousness-raising work of our times.
