This groundbreaking and life-changing work remains just as powerful, important and true as it was forty-five years ago, and is essential reading both as a historical document and as a study of women living in a man's world.
Betty Friedan (1921-2006) is hailed by historians as a seminal
figure in the 'Second Wave' of the women's feminist movement. In
1957, Friedan wrote a questionnaire for her former classmates at a
reunion at the all-female, Smith College. The results revealed that
many women shared the same frustrations as her in their roles as
housewives and mothers. Friedan's findings provided a clear-eyed
analysis of the issues that affected women's lives in the decades
after the Second World War, and became the basis to her book, The
Feminine Mystique. A sensation on publication selling over 3
million copies, it established Friedan as one of the chief
architects of the women's liberation movement.
A novelist and journalist, Lionel Shriver was born in North
Carolina and educated at Columbia University in New York. Her eight
published novels include New York Times bestseller The
Post-Birthday World and international bestseller We Need to Talk
About Kevin, for which she won the Orange Prize in 2005. Her ninth
novel So Much for That will be published in 2010. She writes
regularly for the Guardian, the Times, and The Daily Telegraph, and
has published features, reviews, and columns in the New York Times,
the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and the Economist,
among many other publications. She lives in London.
Feminism ... began with the work of a single person: Friedan
*Nicholas Lemann*
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