Betty Friedan

Victims of a false belief system, women were following strict social convention by loyally conforming to the pretty image of the magazines, and found

Landmark, groundbreaking, classic-these adjectives barely do justice to the pioneering vision and lasting impact of The Feminine Mystique. Published i

First published in 1976, this modern feminist classic brings back years of struggle for those who were there, and recreates the past for readers who w

Betty Friedan argues that once past the initial stages of describing and working against politcal and economic injustices, the women's movement should

The Feminine Mystique (1963) is a powerful critique of women’s roles in contemporary American society. Drawing on new scholarship in the social scienc

'What if she isn't happy - does she think men are happy in this world? Doesn't she know how lucky she is to be a woman?' The pioneering Betty Fried

Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466-1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval pieties in favour of