The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan is a groundbreaking book that explores the dissatisfaction of women in the 1950s and 1960s who were expected to find fulfillment through domesticity and motherhood. Friedan argues that the traditional roles of women in society were limiting and oppressive, and she calls
The Feminine Mystique is a book by American author Betty Friedan, widely credited with sparking second-wave feminism in the United States. First published by W. W. Norton on February 19, 1963, The Feminine Mystique became a bestseller, initially selling over a million copies. Friedan used the book to challenge the widely shared belief that "fulfillment as a woman had only one definition for American women after 1949—the housewife-mother."