What to Read After The Second Stage
Readers who loved The Second Stage by Betty Friedan keep reaching for these 17 books. This list is built from where The Second Stage is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Second Stage
Heroes
Femininity
Third World women and the politics of feminism
Back in the Ussa
My Mother, My Self
The Mommy Myth
Women and Fiction
Toward a Feminist Theory of the State
Whole Woman
As We Are Now
I Never Called It Rape
The Politics of Reality
Sisterhood is Powerful
The Innocence of the Devil
Portraits
The Feminine Mystique
Eat, Pray, Love