The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan'One of the most influential non fiction books of the twentieth century' The New York Times When Betty Friedan produced The Feminine Mystique in 1963, she could not have realized how the discovery and debate of her contemporaries' general malaise would shake up society. Victims of a false belief system, these women were following strict social convention by loyally conforming to the pretty image of the magazines, and found themselves forced to seek

he set about understanding all its moods and seasons

is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books

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the history of science

Raised in the forests of British Columbia

A book of stunning

Dervla Murphy spent a month in the Gaza Strip

and for her children

and now-indestructible

to a meeting of an Arctic explorer's society in Berlin

not to mention murders and selfless sacrifices

Mr Crepsley