The Feminine Mystique

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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.

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