Ever since the 1963 publication of her landmark book, The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan has insisted that her commitment to women\'s rights grew out of her experiences as an alienated suburban housewife.
Drawing on an impressive body of new research -- including Friedan\'s own papers -- Horowitz traces the developm.
Yet as Daniel Horowitz persuasively demonstrates in this illuminating and provocative biography, the roots of Friedan\'s Feminism run much deeper than she has led us to believe.
Ever since the 1963 publication of her landmark book, The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan has insisted that her commitment to women\'s rights grew out of her experiences as an alienated suburban housewife