I have decided to finally read what is widely regarded as the literary work that unleashed the modern feminist movement, Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique.” I am halfway through the book, and I ...

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Fifty years after Betty Friedan’s groundbreaking book, The Feminine Mystique, was published, American society remains in her debt. The positions of American Progress, and our policy experts, are ...

In reflecting on the 50 th anniversary of Betty Friedan’s groundbreaking The Feminine Mystique, Stephanie Coontz wrote in the New York Times that “readers who return to this feminist classic today are ...

Stephanie Coontz author of A Strange Stirring: the Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960’s joins today's show. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ...

American women, then and now. The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in ...

For Betty Friedan, feminism was humanism: a question of growth, maturation and identity. In an afterword to the fiftieth anniversary edition of The Feminine Mystique, the novelist Anna Quindlen ...

A jukebox musical, based on the music of Britney Spears, is in the works. That sentence makes sense. Tell me more. Said musical, titled Once Upon A One More Time (get it?), will be about Cinderella, ...

Three female journalists with three very different books: Cressida Connolly explores the legacy of the Garman Sisters in her first work of nonfiction; Jean Nathan chronicles the strange and eerie life ...

The whole thing starts in heaven where two white-winged “supreme beings” are busy hashing out the man/woman thing. Besotted with indecision, they resort to eenie-meenie-minie-mo, making the woman the ...