The Feminine Mystique

The Feminine Mystique

Author: Betty Friedan

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9780140136555

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This novel was the major inspiration for the Women's Movement and continues to be a powerful and illuminating analysis of the position of women in Western society___


The Feminine Mystique

The Feminine Mystique

Author: Betty Friedan

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2001-09-17

Total Pages: 587

ISBN-13: 0393322572

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The book that changed the consciousness of a country—and the world. Landmark, groundbreaking, classic—these adjectives barely describe the earthshaking and long-lasting effects of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. This is the book that defined "the problem that has no name," that launched the Second Wave of the feminist movement, and has been awakening women and men with its insights into social relations, which still remain fresh, ever since. A national bestseller, with over 1 million copies sold.


Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique

Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique

Author: Daniel Horowitz

Publisher: Culture and Politics in the Company

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9781558492769

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An examination of the development of Betty Friedan's feminist outlook. Horowitz (American studies, Smith College) looks at Friedan's life from her childhood in Peoria, Illinois through her wartime years at Smith College and Berkeley, to her decade-long career as a writer for two radical labor journals, the Federated Press and the United Electrical Workers' UE News. He argues that this history, combined with the fact that Friedan continued to work on behalf of many social causes after her marriage, contradicts Friedan's claim that her commitment to women's rights grew solely out of her experience as an alienated suburban housewife. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


The Mystique of Enlightenment

The Mystique of Enlightenment

Author: U. G. Krishnamurti

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2022-01-04

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"People call me an 'enlightened man' — I detest that term — they can't find any other word to describe the way I am functioning. At the same time, I point out that there is no such thing as enlightenment at all. I say that because all my life I've searched and wanted to be an enlightened man, and I discovered that there is no such thing as enlightenment at all, and so the question whether a particular person is enlightened or not doesn't arise. I don't give a hoot for a sixth-century-BC Buddha, let alone all the other claimants we have in our midst. They are a bunch of exploiters, thriving on the gullibility of the people. There is no power outside of man. Man has created God out of fear. So the problem is fear and not God."


A Strange Stirring

A Strange Stirring

Author: Stephanie Coontz

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2011-01-04

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0465022324

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In 1963, Betty Friedan unleashed a storm of controversy with her bestselling book, The Feminine Mystique. Hundreds of women wrote to her to say that the book had transformed, even saved, their lives. Nearly half a century later, many women still recall where they were when they first read it. In A Strange Stirring, historian Stephanie Coontz examines the dawn of the 1960s, when the sexual revolution had barely begun, newspapers advertised for "perky, attractive gal typists," but married women were told to stay home, and husbands controlled almost every aspect of family life. Based on exhaustive research and interviews, and challenging both conservative and liberal myths about Friedan, A Strange Stirring brilliantly illuminates how a generation of women came to realize that their dissatisfaction with domestic life didn't't reflect their personal weakness but rather a social and political injustice.


The Mystique of Enlightenment

The Mystique of Enlightenment

Author: U. G. Krishnamurti

Publisher: Sentient Publications

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 0971078610

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A scathing critique of contemporary spirituality by one its most unusual figures.


The Equivalents

The Equivalents

Author: Maggie Doherty

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2021-04-13

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 0525434607

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD In 1960, Harvard’s sister college, Radcliffe, announced the founding of an Institute for Independent Study, a “messy experiment” in women’s education that offered paid fellowships to those with a PhD or “the equivalent” in artistic achievement. Five of the women who received fellowships—poets Anne Sexton and Maxine Kumin, painter Barbara Swan, sculptor Marianna Pineda, and writer Tillie Olsen—quickly formed deep bonds with one another that would inspire and sustain their most ambitious work. They called themselves “the Equivalents.” Drawing from notebooks, letters, recordings, journals, poetry, and prose, Maggie Doherty weaves a moving narrative of friendship and ambition, art and activism, love and heartbreak, and shows how the institute spoke to the condition of women on the cusp of liberation. “Rich and powerful. . . . A love story about art and female friendship.” —Harper’s Magazine “Reads like a novel, and an intense one at that. . . . The Equivalents is an observant, thoughtful and energetic account.” —Margaret Atwood, The Globe and Mail (Toronto)


Crazy and a Half

Crazy and a Half

Author: D. R. Andersen

Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 9780573627910

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Six insanely hilarious and touching short plays take a sly look at therapists, patients and the way love drives everyone just a little over the edge. The first three, collectively called New York Crazy, deal with two therapists fighting for the only hour left in their shrink's day, a divorced couple struggling over custody of their dog Harry, and a shy Mafia wife demanding, with gun in hand, that her therapist make her happy. California Crazy shifts to the west coast for three equally funny sessions: an annoyed psychiatrist tries to end therapy with a burnt out rock star who can only sleep soundly during his weekly sessions; a wacky young woman teaches a stuffy head doctor a thing or two about love; and a married couple with intergalactic problems seeks treatment with a husband and wife team of marriage counselors who are on the verge of divorce themselves. Whether performed individually or as a two act, full length entertainment, the laughter will be therapeutic.


The Pope and the Witch

The Pope and the Witch

Author: Dario Fo

Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9780573660405

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature, Dario Fo's name is synonymous with anarchic political comedy. His best known plays in English include Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Can't Pay, Won't Pay and Trumpets and Raspberries. But for over thirty years Fo, often in collaboration with his wife, Franca Rame, has led the field in political satire in Europe: capitalism, imperialism and corruption in the Italian government being the main targets for his ideologically inspired attack. For performance outside Italy, his comedies are frequently adapted to reflect local political conditions. Drawing on all forms of popular theatre, Fo's reputation as a skilled actor, mime, and director equals that of his writing. Abducting Diana (Il ratto della Francesca) is also published by Oberon Books. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.