The Feminine Mystique

Name: The Feminine Mystique
Author: Betty Friedan

by Betty Friedan

Suburban housewife mystique constrains women's identities and human potential

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Betty Friedan

American feminist whose The Feminine Mystique is credited with sparking second-wave feminism by naming 'the problem that has no name'—the dissatisfaction of educated American women confined to domesticity. She co-founded the National Organization for Women in 1966.

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