Dec 17, 2009

The Feminine Mystique | The Feminine Mystique

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Author: Betty Friedan
First Published: 1963
Type of Work: Social criticism
Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Sociology
Subjects: 1950’s, Self-discovery, Wives, Mothers, Parents and children, Sexism, Sex or sexuality, Gender roles, Manners or customs, Social life, Feminism, Women’s issues, Women, Mass media, Higher education, Women’s movement, Career women, Homemakers, Advertising

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The Feminine Mystique is a classic of the early years of the late twentieth century’s feminist movement. Its title is also the term coined by Betty Friedan to define the post-World War II image of women, which suggested that all women should find their female fulfillment as happy, contented housewives and in their families and homes.

In a 1957 survey of her Smith College classmates from fifteen years earlier, Friedan notices a real clash between the educations women were receiving and the ways they were expected to live out the rest of their...

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The Feminine Mystique | The Feminine Mystique

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