The Feminine Mystique Essays and Criticism

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The Feminine Mystique | Essays and Criticism

• Female Repression

  In the following essay, Ryan D. Poquette discusses the types of research that Friedan used in The Feminine Mystique to support her argument that women have been repressed to the point of losing their identities and capacity for sexual fulfillment.

• Friedan's Work and the Women in Grace Paley's Short Stories

  In this essay, Joyce Hart intertwines a discussion of Friedan's work with the narrators and characters found in the short stories of Grace Paley.

• The Development of The Feminine Mystique, 1957-63

  In the following essay excerpt, Daniel Horowitz explores how events in Friedan's personal life and career in the 1950s and early 1960s influenced her completion of The Feminine Mystique.

• The Problem with No Name: Rereading Friedan's The Feminine Mystique

  In the following essay excerpt, Rachel Bowlby explores the link between femininity and consumerism that she finds in Friedan's The Feminine Mystique.

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