The Second Stage.
FRIEDAN, Betty.
The Second Stage.
First edition of The Second Stage; With a Full Page inscription by Betty Friedan
New York: Summit Books, 1981.
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Item Number: 5547
First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Shana- My good true friend, with joy in all our bottles shared and zestful good wishes for our second stage- L + K Betty Friedan.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a few closed tears.
First published in 1981, The Second Stage is eerily prescient and timely, a reminder that much of what is called new thinking in feminism has been eloquently observed and argued before. Warning the women's movement against dissolving into factionalism, male-bashing, and preoccupation with sexual and identity politics rather than bottom-line political and economic inequalities, Friedan argues that once past the initial phases of describing and working against political and economic injustices, the women's movement should focus on working with men to remake private and public arrangements that work against full lives with children for women and men both. Friedan's agenda to preserve families is far more radical than it appears, for she argues that a truly equitable preservation of marriage and family may require a reorganization of many aspects of conventional middle-class life, from the greater use of flex time and job-sharing, to company-sponsored daycare, to new home designs to permit communal housekeeping and cooking arrangements.
