The Feminine Mystique

America in recent years has tried to go back on the emancipation of women. In this startling survey Betty Friedan lays bare, with the exactness of a sociologist, the deep malaise which gnaws at the happiness of so many American housewives… caged in comfortable homes, loyally conforming to the pretty, fluffy image of the magazines, but condemned for life to a spiritual death and continually asking ‘Who am I?’

In her final chapter Mrs Friedan proposes a new plan for women and shows them a way out of their dilemma.