09/26/2026
Happy to have this 1st printing of the second wave of feminism in the shop!
“The Feminine Mystique” by Betty Friedan First Edition, 1st Printing 1963 W. W. Norton Company NY Condition: Very Good/Very Good Square and firm binding, gilt titles on spine bright, light foxing on text block, no markings/writing. DJ has some creasing and minor chipping head of spine, closed 1” tear at top, some scuffs and edge wear. DJ has new archival mylar cover.
Published in 1963 this book advanced the women’s movement to new heights and brought a new fulfillment and way of life to suppressed housewives and mothers. I know my own mother was influenced and found her own voice due to this book. The first paragraph is epic…. “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 the middle of the 20th century in the United States. Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night — she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question — “Is this all?”
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