When Betty Friedan produced "The Feminine Mystique" in 1963, she could not have realized how it would shake up society. It gives a brutally honest insight into the malaise of ordinary women who followed strict social convention by loyally conforming to the pretty images of magazines, and found themselves forced to seek meaning in their lives through a family and a home, only to ask, 'Is this all ? '.
Friedan's controversial book about these women - and every woman - would ultimately set Second Wave feminism in motion and begin the battle for equality.
When Betty Friedan produced "The Feminine Mystique" in 1963, she could not have realized how it would shake up society. It gives a brutally honest insight into the malaise of ordinary women who followed strict social convention by loyally conforming to the pretty images of magazines, and found themselves forced to seek meaning in their lives through a family and a home, only to ask, 'Is this all ? '.
Friedan's controversial book about these women - and every woman - would ultimately set Second Wave feminism in motion and begin the battle for equality.