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Written & read by Betty Friedan - Abridged Nonfiction - 2 CASSETTES - 3 hours

Publisher, Simon & Schuster Audioworks (1993)

In 1963 Betty Friedan's landmark work, The Feminine Mystique, redefined forever the way women thought about themselves and the way society thought about women. Now, with The Fountain of Age, Friedan changes forever the way all of us, men and women, think about ourselves as we grow older and the way society thinks about aging.

Struggling to hold on to the illusion of youth, we have denied the reality and evaded the new triumphs of growing older, seeing age only as decline. But in this powerful and very personal audio Betty Friedan charts her own voyage of discovery, and that of others, into a different kind of aging -- a time for discovering extraordinary new possibilities of intimacy and purpose. In short, a time for adventure.

Drawing on a solid body of startling but little-known scientific evidence, she demolishes constraining old myths and offers compelling alternatives for living one's age as a unique, exuberant time of life, proposing a new Movement of women with men, old with young, that will transform our society.