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Feminism and Diversity

athena

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5. "The Feminine Mystique"

Reply to aswanson (Original post)

Sat Apr 22, 2017, 06:16 PM

Apr 2017

It's old but still very relevant. I read it in grad school, decades after it was published, and it helped me form most of my current opinions about the problem with gender roles.

Another book I really liked when I read it almost two decades ago was "The Mismeasure of Woman" by Carol Tavris.

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Great Feminist Books? [View all] aswanson Feb 2016 OP

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Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook is a classic. japple Feb 2016 #3

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"The Feminine Mystique" athena Apr 2017 #5

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