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Which author and book brought to light women's unhappiness with their roles and initiated the second wave of the women's movement?

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Betty Friedan was an American writer, activist, and feminist. Her book The Feminine Mystique, released in 1963, is often credited with sparking the second wave of American feminism in the 20th century. 
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