Throughout The Feminine Mystique — a term she used to describe the insistence th. at women adhere to traditionally "feminine" roles — Friedan lists a variety of reasons for a woman's identity ...

The 400-page "Feminine Mystique" was "in some ways the first self-help book for women," according to Coontz. "It's dated, but that is its very relevance." "For most women today, ...

The Feminine Mystique has been credited—or blamed—for destroying, single-handedly and almost overnight, the 1950s consensus that women’s place was in the home.

Betty Friedan's 1963 book The Feminine Mystique helped drive the modern women's movement. The author and activist died Saturday of congestive heart failure. She was 85. Harvard historian Nancy ...

Betty Friedan wrote The Feminine Mystique 50 years ago, but today her wisdom still merits sharing. About the Author. Nanette Fondas. Nanette Fondas is co-author of The Custom-Fit Workplace.

For "The Feminine Mystique"’s golden-jubilee reissue, we asked some women who were there, and some who were not, to tell us what the book meant then and what it means now.

Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique was published 50 years ago this month, all but bringing the nascent second-wave feminist movement to the national spotlight. We asked three feminists, each ...

Stephanie Coontz author of A Strange Stirring: the Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960’s joins today's show.

The Feminine Mystique is very dated in its evidence, its argument, and its target audience. Only a few parts of the book still appeal to my students when I assign it in class.

Now is the time for all good women to pay homage to Betty Friedan, who 50 years ago wrote the game-changing manifesto "The Feminine Mystique." With that book, Friedan helped propel a revolution ...