The feminine mystique [Texte imprimé] / Betty Friedan ; [introduction by Gail Collins ; afterword by Anna Quindlen]

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Introduction by Gail Collins -- Preface and acknowledgments -- The problem that has no name -- The happy housewife heroine -- The crisis in woman's identity -- The passionate journey -- The sexual solipsism of sigmund freud -- The functional freeze, the feminine protest, and margaret mead -- The sex-directed educators -- The mistaken choice -- The sexual sell -- Housewifery expands to fill the time available -- The sex-seekers -- Progressive dehumanization : the comfortable concentration camp -- The forfeited self -- A new life plan for women -- Epilogue -- Afterword by anna quindlen -- Thinking back and to the future -- Metamorphosis : two generations later -- Introduction to the tenth anniversary edition -- Notes -- Index -- Reading group guide