A review by kennnedyexe
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

2.0

pretty painful to read tbh. the feminine mystique is so deeply entrenched in the capitalist pretense, elitist and classist dogma, it's not even aware of these facts of its existence. there have been many wonderful, very well written critiques by much more eloquent intersectional feminists, so i wont try to do that here. while she may have helped to bring feminism to the white upper middle class, this perspective is equipped with some well-fastened blinders. it has long not sat well with me to affix in the "essential feminist" canon. best suited for an exercise in critical analysis or dialectics--- certainly not for new minds that struggle to dissect a "sympathetic" text.