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1. What is Freud’s idea of “penis envy” and how was this concept promoted during the era of the feminine mystique?
2. What is functionalism and how were Margaret Mead’s theories used to reinforce the ideas of functionalism?
3. What does Friedan mean when she says education in the mid-twentieth century became “sex-directed”?
4. Friedan writes that research shows women who graduated from “sex-directed” education were initially happy but later showed “anomie.” What is “anomie”?
5. With the...
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