The Second Stage

The Second Stage is a 1981 book by American feminist, activist and writerBetty Friedan, best known for her earlier book The Feminine Mystique, widely credited with having begun second-wave feminism in the United States. Regarded as an influential author and intellectual in the United States, as early as the 1960s Friedan was critical of polarized and extreme factions of feminism that attacked groups such as men and homemakers. One of her later books, The Second Stage critiqued what Friedan saw as the extremist excesses of some feminists.