A review by sreyasreya
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

3.0

If somebody asked you to show them the prime example of white and sectional feminism show them this book. The statistics and analogies to Freud were good and very interesting and in the introduction Friedan agreed that the book was very narrow-minded but it felt as if sometimes she blamed the the middle-class house wife demographic going backwards on the Civil Rights Movement or the Anti-War movement, with the idea that every other activist organization was against economically stable and middle class women's rights. Also the way Friedman talks about homosexuality is actually appalling, Friedman discussing how gay men are weak just shows how she believed that other activist organizations were a threat to what she wanted and what she believed. The book is okay and basic read into the feminist cannon, and gives an average view into the middle and upper-middle class women's struggles in the post war years.