we can in any case hope) that The Feminine Mystique will not have a similar currency and relevance in the world of the 2160s.
In some respects, Friedan had the good luck to write the right book at the right time. Americans of the late 1950s and late 1960s were preoccupied with the constriction and dullness that seemed to have settled upon American life in the fifties. John F. Kennedy was elected President largely because he was young, glamorous, and had no taint of 1950s boredom and conformity about him. Books like The Organization Man had raised questions about middle-class American men that in many ways paralleled the quest
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