Excerpts from [The Feminine Mystique] - powerful, though reflects the time it was written. ( )

This is just a Penguin Modern mini with a couple of extracts from The Feminine Mystique. It has made me want to read the whole book. A couple of bits really struck me as being still very true and relevant, which is a bit depressing given that it was written over 50 years ago about the stereotypical American housewife/family. There was an interesting bit about generations of children being brought with a lack of self-reliance - we'd probably call it helicopter parenting now, so it was interesting to see it was a concern way back then as well. ( )