by Deborah Quinn | Feb 27, 2013 | Abu Dhabi, Books, Feminism, Politics
Well, not Friedan, exactly, but The Feminine Mystique. It turned fifty last week, you know, and I have to say that I think it (she?) is holding up pretty well, all things considered. As some of you have pointed out in comments, the book is flawed–there is no...
by Deborah Quinn | Feb 25, 2013 | Abu Dhabi, Books, Feminism, Politics
Last week was the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Feminist Mystique. It’s a flawed book, but still, I think, an important one, maybe even more so now because so many people (men and women) in the younger generation seem to think that the...