DUMBING DOWN SARAH.
| Publisher | Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. |
| Publication | Quadrant |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0033-5002 |
| Issues per Year | 10 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Published | 1999-09-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | Hal Colebatch |
| Person | Influence | Betty Friedan |
PIONEERING American feminist Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique in 1963. It was one of the most influential books connected with the rise of modern feminism.
Part of her researches into what had happened to women to keep them trapped in an inferior position consisted of reading back issues of women's magazines and noting as a matter of sociological significance the changing contents and the changing heroines portrayed there. In particular, she detected from these magazines a loss in initiative and independent identity in women, or in the image of women the/were...
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