New York Times book review, April 7, 1963.
Book-jacket summation: .....highly readable, provocative book.
The final paragraph's more critical assessment. Sweeping generalities, in which this book necessarily abounds, may hold a certain amount of truth but often obscure the deeper issues. It is superficial to blame the "culture" and its handmaidens, the women's magazines, as she does. What is to stop a woman who is interested in national and international affairs from reading magazines that deal with those subjects? To paraphrase a famous line, "The fault, dear Mrs. Friedan, is not in our culture, but in ourselves."
New York Times film and literary critic Janet Maslin confesses that she just read the book.
On Reading a Treatise 50 Years Late. (Subhead in the print edition.)
Friedan had, and still has, her detractors.
Criticisms of a Classic Abound.
The book debuted on the New York Times nonfiction best seller list on April 28, 1963, It spent just three weeks here.
The #1 song at the time of the book's publication.
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