The Feminine Mystique‚ a novel written in 1963 by Betty Friedan‚ provided a strong wake up call for women in America about a problem that was negatively impacting them‚ but not spoken of. After women fought so hard in the 1930’s for the right to vote and equality with men in many areas‚ the author describes how changes in attitude after World War II were convincing women that their most important role is to get married‚ have kids and take care of the home. However‚ these women then felt an emptiness
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since the first wave of feminism. But to what extent are women treated as equal to their male counterpart? The persistent gap between the treatment of men and women even after the first wave of feminism provoked a second wave. The catalyst to mainstream feminism in the 1960’s through 1970’s was Betty Friedan’s book‚The Feminine Mystique. Women’s right activist and writer‚ Betty Friedan‚ a leading figure in the Feminist movement. Her book ‚The Feminine Mystique‚ was a major influence in the second wave
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In Feminine Mystique‚ Betty Friedan wrote about women’s inequality from men to women’s equality to men‚ women accepting the inequality to women fighting for equality. Feminine Mystique‚ is trying to encourage the reader to what occurred during the feminist movement. How women’s rights came to a reality‚ how women believed there was only one role to have which is a typical housewife that has a husband to overpower her. Not being able to vote‚ or have any rights as an equal to men. Friedan also
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Feminine Mystique” by author Betty Friedan attention is drawn to an issue that was going unnamed and undiscussed. Throughout her book she explores what she believes causes “the problem that has no name” which is essentially defined as women’s unhappiness. “The problem lay buried‚ unspoken‚ for many years in the minds of American women” (Friedan p#1). This “problem that has no name” was essentially what Friedan claims to be an unrealistic image of femininity that she calls “the feminine mystique”. Friedan
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"The Feminine Mystique" Analysis Paper By: Tess Taylor Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique was first published in the United States in 1963 by W. W. Norton & Company. Friedan began writing this piece after she attended her fifteen-year college reunion at Smith‚ a woman’s college. She prepared a questionaire for 200 of her classmates at this reunion. The results were as she expected; many American women were unhappy and did not know why. Many magazines did not want to post Friedan’s results
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The Feminine Mystique The Feminine Mystique is the title of a book written by Betty Friedan who also founded The National Organization for Women (NOW) to help US women gain equal rights. She describes the "feminine mystique" as the heightened awareness of the expectations of women and how each woman has to fit a certain role as a little girl‚ an uneducated and unemployed teenager‚ and finally as a wife and mother who is to happily clean the kitchen and cook things all day. After World War II
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moms. Society began to follow the sexist “templates” displayed on TV‚ newspapers‚ and ads. A few women however‚ one being Betty Friedan‚ did not back down. Betty was angry at the media‚ and expressed her anger and confusion in her book‚ The Feminine Mystique. Thankfully‚ women rose to the occasion‚ followed in Betty’s footsteps and fought for equality. Because of this fight‚ women in the 21st century have the same opportunities as men. The media however‚ remains partly tainted by the ideologies of the
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Friedan. 2) During the era of “Rosie the Riveter”‚ what gains did women make in the workforce? How did these women feel about themselves and their contributions? What did society as a whole think? 3) What role did mass media play during the 1950s and 1960s in regard to supporting or undermining the “feminine mystique”? 4) Which television heroine -- Alice‚ Lucy‚ or Miss Brooks -- came the closest to TRULY overcoming the feminine mystique‚ and elaborate on that heroine’s situation and relationship
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Gail Collins argues‚ “The Feminine Mystique is a very specific cry of rage about the way intelligent‚ well-educated women were kept out of the mainstream of American professional life and regarded as little more than a set of reproductive organs in heels” (1). At a time when women were at
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