A great and insightful guide to the second and first wave feminist movements. It has two essays, the first and titular one, being what led to Friedan’s Feminine Mystique. The second about the origins of the feminist movement in the 1800-early 1900s. I learned a few new things about both waves and had many favorite quotes underlined! My only complaint is that Friedan seemed to assume all the women’s rights feminists were abolitionists as well, when in fact many of them were racist and viewed black women as separate to “their” own cause as white women. However maybe this was not common knowledge at the time of Friedan’s writings in which case it’s understandable to not fully address