The Feminine Mystique at 50

Confession: I just read The Feminine Mystique, 50 years old this month, for the first time, so I could think about it with you, Noreen. That’s embarrassing for a bunch of reasons—I’m a feminist, I helped start Slate’s DoubleX, I’m supposed to be a generally educated person, and Betty Friedan was my grandmother’s cousin, so I grew up knowing her. She actually gave me a copy of the 20th...