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| the feminine mystique betty friedan: The Feminine Mystique Betty Friedan, 2001-09-17 The book that changed the consciousness of a country—and the world. Landmark, groundbreaking, classic—these adjectives barely describe the earthshaking and long-lasting effects of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. This is the book that defined the problem that has no name, that launched the Second Wave of the feminist movement, and has been awakening women and men with its insights into social relations, which still remain fresh, ever since. A national bestseller, with over 1 million copies sold. |
| the feminine mystique betty friedan: The Feminine Mystique Betty Friedan, 1992 This novel was the major inspiration for the Women's Movement and continues to be a powerful and illuminating analysis of the position of women in Western society___ |
| the feminine mystique betty friedan: Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique Daniel Horowitz, 2000 An examination of the development of Betty Friedan's feminist outlook. Horowitz (American studies, Smith College) looks at Friedan's life from her childhood in Peoria, Illinois through her wartime years at Smith College and Berkeley, to her decade-long career as a writer for two radical labor journals, the Federated Press and the United Electrical Workers' UE News. He argues that this history, combined with the fact that Friedan continued to work on behalf of many social causes after her marriage, contradicts Friedan's claim that her commitment to women's rights grew solely out of her experience as an alienated suburban housewife. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
| the feminine mystique betty friedan: The Feminine Mystique Betty Friedan, 2013-02-11 A fiftieth anniversary edition of the trailblazing women's reference shares anecdotes and interviews that were originally collected in the early 1960s to inspire women to develop their intellectual capabilities and reclaim lives beyond period conventions. |
| the feminine mystique betty friedan: A Strange Stirring Stephanie Coontz, 2011-01-04 In 1963, Betty Friedan unleashed a storm of controversy with her bestselling book, The Feminine Mystique. Hundreds of women wrote to her to say that the book had transformed, even saved, their lives. Nearly half a century later, many women still recall where they were when they first read it. In A Strange Stirring, historian Stephanie Coontz examines the dawn of the 1960s, when the sexual revolution had barely begun, newspapers advertised for perky, attractive gal typists, but married women were told to stay home, and husbands controlled almost every aspect of family life. Based on exhaustive research and interviews, and challenging both conservative and liberal myths about Friedan, A Strange Stirring brilliantly illuminates how a generation of women came to realize that their dissatisfaction with domestic life didn't't reflect their personal weakness but rather a social and political injustice. |
| the feminine mystique betty friedan: The Feminine Mystique Elizabeth Whitaker, 2017-07-05 Betty Friedan's book The Feminine Mystique is possibly the best-selling of all the titles analysed in the Macat library, and arguably one of the most important. Yet it was the product of an apparently minor, meaningless assignment. Undertaking to approach former classmates who had attended Smith College with her, 10 years after their graduation, the high-achieving Friedan was astonished to discover that the survey she had undertaken for a magazine feature revealed a high proportion of her contemporaries were suffering from a malaise she had thought was unique to her: profound dissatisfaction at the ‘ideal’ lives they had been living as wives, mothers and homemakers. For Friedan, this discovery stimulated a remarkable burst of creative thinking, as she began to connect the elements of her own life together in new ways. The popular idea that men and women were equal, but different – that men found their greatest fulfilment through work, while women were most fulfilled in the home – stood revealed as a fallacy, and the depression and even despair she and so many other women felt as a result was recast not as a failure to adapt to a role that was the truest expression of femininity, but as the natural product of undertaking repetitive, unfulfilling and unremunerated labor. Friedan's seminal expression of these new ideas redefined an issue central to many women's lives so successfully that it fuelled a movement – the ‘second wave’ feminism of the 1960s and 1970s that fundamentally challenged the legal and social framework underpinning an entire society. |
| the feminine mystique betty friedan: Interviews with Betty Friedan Janann Sherman, 2002 Thinkers. Book jacket. |
| the feminine mystique betty friedan: It Changed My Life Betty Friedan, 1998 First published in 1976, this modern feminist classic brings back years of struggle for those who were there, and recreates the past for readers who were not yet born during these struggles for opportunity and respect to which women can now feel entitled. In changing women's lives, the women's movement has changed everything. |
| the feminine mystique betty friedan: The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off! Gloria Steinem, 2019-10-29 A beautifully illustrated collection of Gloria Steinem’s most inspirational and outrageous quotes, with an introduction and essays by the feminist activist herself “A fearless book full of passion, resolute perspective, and unbiased hope for the future.”—Janelle Monáe For decades—and especially now, in these times of crisis—people around the world have found guidance, humor, and unity in Gloria Steinem’s gift for creating quotes that offer hope and inspire action. From her early days as a journalist and feminist activist, Steinem’s words have helped generations to empower themselves and work together. Covering topics from relationships (“Many are looking for the right person. Too few are trying to be the right person.”) to the patriarchy (“Men are liked better when they win. Women are liked better when they lose. This is how the patriarchy is enforced every day.”) and activism (“Revolutions, like trees, grow from the bottom up.”), this is the definitive collection of Steinem’s words on what matters most. Steinem sees quotes as “the poetry of everyday life,” so she also has included a few favorites from friends, including bell hooks, Flo Kennedy, and Michelle Obama, in this book that will make you want to laugh, march, and create some quotes of your own. In fact, at the end of the book, there’s a special space for readers to add their own quotes and others they’ve found inspiring. The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off! is both timeless and timely. It is a gift of hope from Steinem to readers, and a book to share with friends. |
| the feminine mystique betty friedan: The Second Stage Betty Friedan, 1998 Betty Friedan argues that once past the initial stages of describing and working against politcal and economic injustices, the women's movement should focus on working with men to remake private and public tasks and attitudes. |
| the feminine mystique betty friedan: The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time Robert McCrum, 2018 Beginning in 1611 with the King James Bible and ending in 2014 with Elizabeth Kolbert's 'The Sixth Extinction', this extraordinary voyage through the written treasures of our culture examines universally-acclaimed classics such as Pepys' 'Diaries', Charles Darwin's 'The Origin of Species', Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time' and a whole host of additional works -- |
| the feminine mystique betty friedan: The Problem that Has No Name Betty Friedan, 2018 'What if she isn't happy - does she think men are happy in this world? Doesn't she know how lucky she is to be a woman?' The pioneering Betty Friedan here identifies the strange problem plaguing American housewives, and examines the malignant role advertising plays in perpetuating the myth of the 'happy housewife heroine'. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space. |
| the feminine mystique betty friedan: A Jewish Feminine Mystique? Hasia R. Diner, Shira M. Kohn, Rachel Kranson, 2010 Shira Kohn and Rachel Kranson are doctoral candidates in New York University's joint Ph. D. program in history and Hebrew and Judaic studies --Book Jacket. |
| the feminine mystique betty friedan: Beyond Gender Betty Friedan, 1997-10-10 Once again, Betty Friedan has challenged her readers to rethink the context within which they view both the relations of the sexes and the relations of the marketplace. |
| the feminine mystique betty friedan: Fountain of Age Betty Friedan, 2006-08 Betty Friedan launches a new revolution with this powerful, bestselling book breaking through the American mystique of aging as decline. Through hundreds of interviews, Friedan confronts our denial and demolishes society's compassionate contempt--to offer a vision of what can be embraced. |
| the feminine mystique betty friedan: Life So Far Betty Friedan, 2006-08 At last Betty Friedan herself speaks about her life and career. With the same unsparing frankness that made The Feminine Mystique one of the most influential books of our era, Friedan looks back and tells us what it took -- and what it cost -- to change the world. Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, published in 1963, started the women's movement it sold more than four million copies and was recently named one of the one hundred most important books of the century. In Life So Far, Friedan takes us on an intimate journey through her life -- a lonely childhood in Peoria, Illinois salvation at Smith College her days as a labor reporter for a union newspaper in New York (from which she was dismissed when she became pregnant) unfulfilling and painful years as a suburban housewife finding great joy as a mother and writing The Feminine Mystique, which grew out of a survey of her Smith classmates and started it all. Friedan chronicles the secret underground of women in Washington, D.C., who drafted her in the early 1960s to spearhead an NAACP for women, and recounts the courage of many, including some Catholic nuns who played a brave part in those early days of NOW, the National Organization for Women. Friedan's feminist thinking, a philosophy of evolution, is reflected throughout her book. She recognized early that the women's movement would falter if institutions did not change to reflect the new realities of women's lives, and she fought to keep the movement practical and free of extremism, including man-hating. She describes candidly the movement's political infighting that brought her to the point of legal action and resulted in a long breach with fellow leaders Gloria Steinem and Bella Abzug. Friedan is frank about her twenty-two-year marriage to Carl Friedan, an advertising entrepreneur. She writes about the explosive cycle of drinking, arguing, and physical battering she endured and explores her prolonged inability to leave the marriage. (They are now friends and the grandparents of nine.) Friedan was not only pivotal in the founding of NOW, she was also the driving force behind the creation of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL), the National Women's Political Caucus (NWPC), and the First Women's Bank and Trust Company. She made history by introducing the issue of sex discrimination as an argument against the ratification of a Supreme Court nominee. She convinced the Secretary General of the United Nations to declare 1975 the International Year of the Woman. In this volume, Friedan brings to extraordinary life her bold and contentious leadership in the movement. She lectures, writes, leads think tanks, and organizes women and men to work together in political, legal, and social battles on behalf of women's rights.--From publisher description. |
| the feminine mystique betty friedan: The Feminine Mystique Betty Friedan, 2013 Contains a section of scholarship on The feminine mystique, with excerpts from many prominent historians, including Daniel Horowitz, Joanne Meyerowitz, Ruth Rosen, and Stephanie Coontz, amont others. --Back cover. |
| the feminine mystique betty friedan: The End of Men Hanna Rosin, 2012-09-11 Essential reading for our times, as women are pulling together to demand their rights— A landmark portrait of women, men, and power in a transformed world. “Anchored by data and aromatized by anecdotes, [Rosin] concludes that women are gaining the upper hand. –The Washington Post Men have been the dominant sex since, well, the dawn of mankind. But Hanna Rosin was the first to notice that this long-held truth is, astonishingly, no longer true. Today, by almost every measure, women are no longer gaining on men: They have pulled decisively ahead. And “the end of men”—the title of Rosin’s Atlantic cover story on the subject—has entered the lexicon as dramatically as Betty Friedan’s “feminine mystique,” Simone de Beauvoir’s “second sex,” Susan Faludi’s “backlash,” and Naomi Wolf’s “beauty myth” once did. In this landmark book, Rosin reveals how our current state of affairs is radically shifting the power dynamics between men and women at every level of society, with profound implications for marriage, sex, children, work, and more. With wide-ranging curiosity and insight unhampered by assumptions or ideology, Rosin shows how the radically different ways men and women today earn, learn, spend, couple up—even kill—has turned the big picture upside down. And in The End of Men she helps us see how, regardless of gender, we can adapt to the new reality and channel it for a better future. |
| the feminine mystique betty friedan: Woman's Work Lisa Frederiksen Bohannon, 2004 Betty Friedan's seminal work, The Feminine Mystique, is often credited with launching the women's rights movement. The book was published in 1963 and was informed by Betty's difficult relationship with her own mother, her training in psychology (she graduated summa cum laude from Smith College), and her experience raising three children in an unhappy marriage. Betty's unwillingness to accept the status quo led her to challenge traditional notions about women's roles and she became an outspoken leader in the feminist movement, co-founding the National Organization for Women along the way. Yet Friedan also became a lightning rod for controversy, eventually leaving NOW to pursue other interests that included helping women from other countries achieve equality and advocating for the rights of the elderly. Woman's Work: The Story of Betty Friedan presents the multi-faceted life and work of this complicated, fascinating woman, offering insight into the determination and dedication that shaped her into an icon to those who have followed in her wake. Book jacket. |
| the feminine mystique betty friedan: An Analysis of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique Elizabeth Whitaker, 2017-07-05 In 1963’s The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan challenged the vision 1950s America had of itself as a nation of happy housewives and contented families. |
| the feminine mystique betty friedan: U.S. History P. Scott Corbett, Volker Janssen, John M. Lund, Todd Pfannestiel, Sylvie Waskiewicz, Paul Vickery, 2024-09-10 U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender. |
| the feminine mystique betty friedan: Wall Street Women Melissa S. Fisher, 2012-06-19 Wall Street Women tells the story of the first generation of women to establish themselves as professionals on Wall Street. Since these women, who began their careers in the 1960s, faced blatant discrimination and barriers to advancement, they created formal and informal associations to bolster one another's careers. In this important historical ethnography, Melissa S. Fisher draws on fieldwork, archival research, and extensive interviews with a very successful cohort of first-generation Wall Street women. She describes their professional and political associations, most notably the Financial Women's Association of New York City and the Women's Campaign Fund, a bipartisan group formed to promote the election of pro-choice women. Fisher charts the evolution of the women's careers, the growth of their political and economic clout, changes in their perspectives and the cultural climate on Wall Street, and their experiences of the 2008 financial collapse. While most of the pioneering subjects of Wall Street Women did not participate in the women's movement as it was happening in the 1960s and 1970s, Fisher argues that they did produce a market feminism which aligned liberal feminist ideals about meritocracy and gender equity with the logic of the market. |
| the feminine mystique betty friedan: The Feminine Mystique Betty Friedan, 2021-03-08 The book that sparked a feminist revolution, now with a new introduction by Gaby Hinsliff. ‘Love and children and home are good but they are not the whole world, even if most of the words now written for women pretend they are. Why should women accept this picture of a half-life, instead of a share in the whole of human destiny?’ First published in 1963, Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique changed the world. Widely credited with inspiring second-wave feminism, the book spoke to women across the globe and defined ‘the problem that has no name’. It showed women that they could and should aim for a life beyond the home and the family, and that they could never find true fulfilment as long as their roles and ambitions were so narrowly defined. Based on interviews with suburban housewives, as well as researching psychology and how women were portrayed in media and advertising, The Feminine Mystique showed that many women were in fact deeply unsatisfied, but unable to find a voice to express their feelings. A powerful and ground-breaking piece of feminist writing and a historically important literary work, it laid the foundations for many feminist activists following in Friedan’s footsteps, and had significant societal and political influence on the progression of gender equality. This new edition, published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of Betty Friedan’s birth, includes a new introduction by Gaby Hinsliff, which discusses the reasons why Friedan’s book still has so much to say to women today. Praise for The Feminine Mystique: 'One of the most influential non-fiction books of the twentieth century' The New York Times ‘If American women look at their lives today, they are seeing Betty Friedan’s legacy in action.’ Naomi Wolf, Time ‘Brilliant… succeeded where no other feminist writer had. She touched the lives of ordinary readers.’ The New Yorker ‘The Feminine Mystique forever changed the conversation as well as the way women view themselves. If you’ve never read it, read it now and reflect on what our mothers and grandmothers were feeling at the time. It’s a great moment to celebrate this milestone work, which fundamentally altered the course of women’s lives.’ Arianna Huffington, O, The Oprah Magazine ‘A highly readable, provocative book.’ New York Times Book Review ‘The Feminine Mystique is the Tupac Shakur of literary feminism, reincarnated at least once every decade with new insights that engender old beefs while at the same time serving as a reminder of why it’s a classic.’ The Los Angeles Review of Books |
| the feminine mystique betty friedan: The Cause Eric Alterman, 2013-05-28 A major history of American liberalism and the key personalities behind the movement Why is it that nearly every liberal initiative since the end of the New Deal—whether busing, urban development, affirmative action, welfare, gun control, or Roe v. Wade—has fallen victim to its grand aspirations, often exacerbating the very problem it seeks to solve? In this groundbreaking work, the first full treatment of modern liberalism in the United States, bestselling journalist and historian Eric Alterman together with Kevin Mattson present a comprehensive history of this proud, yet frequently maligned tradition. In The Cause, we meet the politicians, preachers, intellectuals, artists, and activists—from Eleanor Roosevelt to Barack Obama, Adlai Stevenson to Hubert Humphrey, and Billie Holiday to Bruce Springsteen—who have battled for the heart and soul of the nation. |
| the feminine mystique betty friedan: When Everything Changed Gail Collins, 2009-10-14 Gail Collins, New York Times columnist and bestselling author, recounts the astounding revolution in women's lives over the past 50 years, with her usual sly wit and unfussy style (People). When Everything Changed begins in 1960, when most American women had to get their husbands' permission to apply for a credit card. It ends in 2008 with Hillary Clinton's historic presidential campaign. This was a time of cataclysmic change, when, after four hundred years, expectations about the lives of American women were smashed in just a generation. A comprehensive mix of oral history and Gail Collins's keen research -- covering politics, fashion, popular culture, economics, sex, families, and work -- When Everything Changed is the definitive book on five crucial decades of progress. The enormous strides made since 1960 include the advent of the birth control pill, the end of Help Wanted -- Male and Help Wanted -- Female ads, and the lifting of quotas for women in admission to medical and law schools. Gail Collins describes what has happened in every realm of women's lives, partly through the testimonies of both those who made history and those who simply made their way. Picking up where her highly lauded book America's Women left off, When Everything Changed is a dynamic story, told with the down-to-earth, amusing, and agenda-free tone for which this beloved New York Times columnist is known. Older readers, men and women alike, will be startled as they are reminded of what their lives once were -- Father Knows Best and My Little Margie on TV; daily weigh-ins for stewardesses; few female professors; no women in the Boston marathon, in combat zones, or in the police department. Younger readers will see their history in a rich new way. It has been an era packed with drama and dreams -- some dashed and others realized beyond anyone's imagining. |
| the feminine mystique betty friedan: All the Single Ladies Rebecca Traister, 2016-10-11 Today, only twenty percent of Americans are wed by age twenty-nine, compared to nearly sixty percent in 1960. The Population Reference Bureau calls it a 'dramatic reversal.' [This book presents a] portrait of contemporary American life and how we got here, through the lens of the single American woman, covering class, race, [and] sexual orientation, and filled with ... anecdotes from ... contemporary and historical figures-- |
| the feminine mystique betty friedan: Blue Angel Francine Prose, 2009-10-13 The National Book Award Finalist from acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Francine Prose—now the major motion picture Submission “Screamingly funny … Blue Angel culminates in a sexual harassment hearing that rivals the Salem witch trials.” —USA Today It's been years since Swenson, a professor in a New England creative writing program, has published a novel. It's been even longer since any of his students have shown promise. Enter Angela Argo, a pierced, tattooed student with a rare talent for writing. Angela is just the thing Swenson needs. And, better yet, she wants his help. But, as we all know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Deliciously risque, Blue Angel is a withering take on today's academic mores and a scathing tale that vividly shows what can happen when academic politics collides with political correctness. |
| the feminine mystique betty friedan: Sharp Michelle Dean, 2018-04-10 A “deeply researched and uncommonly engrossing” book profiling ten trailblazing literary women, including Dorothy Parker and Joan Didion (Paris Review). In Sharp, Michelle Dean explores the lives of ten women of vastly different backgrounds and points of view who all made a significant contribution to the cultural and intellectual history of America. These women—Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, and Janet Malcolm—are united by what Dean calls “sharpness,” the ability to cut to the quick with precision of thought and wit. Sharp is a vibrant depiction of the intellectual beau monde of twentieth-century New York, where gossip-filled parties gave out to literary slugging-matches in the pages of the Partisan Review or the New York Review of Books. It is also a passionate portrayal of how these women asserted themselves through their writing despite the extreme condescension of the male-dominated cultural establishment. Mixing biography, literary criticism, and cultural history, Sharp is a celebration of this group of extraordinary women, an engaging introduction to their works, and a testament to how anyone who feels powerless can claim the mantle of writer, and, perhaps, change the world. |
| the feminine mystique betty friedan: Desperately Seeking Sisterhood Magdalene Ang-Lygate, Millsom S. Henry, Chris Corrin, 1997 First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |
| the feminine mystique betty friedan: The Female Eunuch Germaine Greer, 2009-02-06 The publication of Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch in 1970 was a landmark event, raising eyebrows and ire while creating a shock wave of recognition in women around the world with its steadfast assertion that sexual liberation is the key to women's liberation. Today, Greer's searing examination of the oppression of women in contemporary society is both an important historical record of where we've been and a shockingly relevant treatise on what still remains to be achieved. |
| the feminine mystique betty friedan: The Beauty Myth Naomi Wolf, 2009-03-17 The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity. In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as the traditional image of homemaker and wife. It's the beauty myth, an obsession with physical perfection that traps the modern woman in an endless spiral of hope, self-consciousness, and self-hatred as she tries to fulfill society's impossible definition of the flawless beauty. |
| the feminine mystique betty friedan: Against Love Laura Kipnis, 2009-01-16 A polemic against love that is “engagingly acerbic ... extremely funny.... A deft indictment of the marital ideal, as well as a celebration of the dissent that constitutes adultery, delivered in pointed daggers of prose” (The New Yorker). Who would dream of being against love? No one. Love is, as everyone knows, a mysterious and all-controlling force, with vast power over our thoughts and life decisions. But is there something a bit worrisome about all this uniformity of opinion? Is this the one subject about which no disagreement will be entertained, about which one truth alone is permissible? Consider that the most powerful organized religions produce the occasional heretic; every ideology has its apostates; even sacred cows find their butchers. Except for love. Hence the necessity for a polemic against it. A polemic is designed to be the prose equivalent of a small explosive device placed under your E-Z-Boy lounger. It won’t injure you (well not severely); it’s just supposed to shake things up and rattle a few convictions. |
| the feminine mystique betty friedan: Betty Friedan and the Making of "The Feminine Mystique" Daniel Horowitz, 2000-09-01 |
| the feminine mystique betty friedan: The First Measured Century Theodore Caplow, Louis Hicks, Ben J. Wattenberg, 2001 Companion v. to the PBS television documentary The first measured century. Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-296) and index. |
| the feminine mystique betty friedan: The Mommy Myth Susan Douglas, Meredith Michaels, 2005-02-08 Now in paperback, the provocative book that has ignited fiery debate and created a dialogue among women about the state of motherhood today. In THE MOMMY MYTH, Susan Douglas and Meredith Michaels turn their 'sharp, funny, and fed-up prose' (San Diego Union Tribune) toward the cult of the new momism, a trend in Western culture that suggests that women can only achieve contentment through the perfection of mothering. Even so, the standards of this ideal remain out of reach, no matter how hard women try to 'have it all'. THE MOMMY MYTH skilfully maps the distance travelled from the days when THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE demanded more for women than keeping house and raising children, to today's not-so-subtle pressure to reverse this trend. A must-read for every woman. |
| the feminine mystique betty friedan: Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism Donald T. Critchlow, 2018-06-05 Longtime activist, author, and antifeminist leader Phyllis Schlafly is for many the symbol of the conservative movement in America. In this provocative new book, historian Donald T. Critchlow sheds new light on Schlafly's life and on the unappreciated role her grassroots activism played in transforming America's political landscape. Based on exclusive and unrestricted access to Schlafly's papers as well as sixty other archival collections, the book reveals for the first time the inside story of this Missouri-born mother of six who became one of the most controversial forces in modern political history. It takes us from Schlafly's political beginnings in the Republican Right after the World War II through her years as an anticommunist crusader to her more recent efforts to thwart same-sex marriage and stem the flow of illegal immigrants. Schlafly's political career took off after her book A Choice Not an Echo helped secure Barry Goldwater's nomination. With sales of more than 3 million copies, the book established her as a national voice within the conservative movement. But it was Schlafly's bid to defeat the Equal Rights Amendment that gained her a grassroots following. Her anti-ERA crusade attracted hundreds of thousands of women into the conservative fold and earned her a name as feminism's most ardent opponent. In the 1970s, Schlafly founded the Eagle Forum, a Washington-based conservative policy organization that today claims a membership of 50,000 women. Filled with fresh insights into these and other initiatives, Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism provides a telling profile of one of the most influential activists in recent history. Sure to invite spirited debate, it casts new light on a major shift in American politics, the emergence of the Republican Right. |
| the feminine mystique betty friedan: Success and Solitude Sarah Maxwell (Ph. D.), 2009 In the early 1960s, a wife, mother, and activist asked, Is this all? and the second wave of feminism was born. The Feminine Mystique marshaled support for women's causes, particularly among white, suburban homemakers who were educated but intellectually frustrated. Through the National Organization for Women, Betty Friedan and her colleagues aimed their message to both the frustrated homemaker and the employed middle-class woman. Thousands of grass-roots and national organizations emerged as a sizable powerhouse for women's rights. Organizational membership grew, laws were passed, public policy acquiesced, and women entered academia, the workplace, and politics in dramatic fashion over only a few decades. Where is the Women's Movement today, a half century later? The answer is deeply rooted in the health and vitality of the organizations that comprise the national movement. Many women are now successful, but feminist organizations find themselves in solitude, nearly fifty years following The Feminine Mystique. In Success and Solitude, the women's movement as a national social movement is critiqued and analyzed at an organizational level. Book jacket. |
| the feminine mystique betty friedan: The New Soft War on Women Caryl Rivers, Rosalind C. Barnett, 2013-10-17 For the first time in history, women make up half the educated labor force and are earning the majority of advanced degrees. It should be the best time ever for women, and yet... it’s not. Storm clouds are gathering, and the worst thing is that most women don’t have a clue what could be coming. In large part this is because the message they’re being fed is that they now have it made. But do they? In The New Soft War on Women, respected experts on gender issues and the psychology of women Caryl Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett argue that an insidious war of subtle biases and barriers is being waged that continues to marginalize women. Although women have made huge strides in recent years, these gains have not translated into money and influence. Consider the following: - Women with MBAs earn, on average, $4,600 less than their male counterparts in their first job out of business school. - Female physicians earn, on average, 39 percent less than male physicians. - Female financial analysts take in 35 percent less, and female chief executives one quarter less than men in similar positions. In this eye-opening book, Rivers and Barnett offer women the real facts as well as tools for combating the “soft war” tactics that prevent them from advancing in their careers. With women now central to the economy, determining to a large degree whether it thrives or stagnates, this is one war no one can afford for them to lose. |
| the feminine mystique betty friedan: Women, the Longest Revolution Juliet Mitchell, 1969 |
| the feminine mystique betty friedan: The Myth of Equality Ken Wytsma, 2019-07-23 Is privilege real or imagined? Ken Wytsma, founder of the Justice Conference, unpacks what we need to know to be grounded in conversations about today's race-related issues. And he helps us come to a deeper understanding of both the origins of these issues and the reconciling role we are called to play as witnesses of the gospel. |
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5 Oct 2024 · The Feminine Mystique, a landmark book by feminist Betty Friedan published in 1963 that described the pervasive dissatisfaction among women in mainstream American society in the post-World War II period. Learn more about the work, including its impact.
The Feminine Mystique - Wikipedia
The Feminine Mystique is a book by American author Betty Friedan, widely credited with sparking second-wave feminism in the United States. [2] First published by W. W. Norton on February 19, 1963, The Feminine Mystique became a bestseller, initially selling over a million copies.
The Powerful, Complicated Legacy of Betty Friedan’s ‘The Feminine Mystique’
4 Feb 2021 · In the acclaimed 1963 The Feminine Mystique, Friedan tapped into the dissatisfaction of American women. The landmark bestseller, translated into at least a dozen languages with more than three...
The Feminine Mystique: Penguin Modern Classics Paperback
Friedan's classic reveals in detail the plight of middle class women in the USA in the 1950s and 1960s - educated and clever but consigned to the drudgery of domesticity because of the expectations of the society in which they lived and which many of them internalised themselves.
The Feminine Mystique - Penguin Books UK
When Betty Friedan produced The Feminine Mystique in 1963, she could not have realized how the discovery and debate of her contemporaries' general malaise would shake up society.
The Feminine Mystique – 50th Anniversary Edition Hardcover
Writing in a time when the average woman first married in her teens and 60 percent of women students dropped out of college to marry, Betty Friedan captured the frustrations and thwarted ambitions of a generation and showed women how they could reclaim their lives.
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1 Mar 2010 · This is the book that defined "the problem that has no name," that launched the Second Wave of the feminist movement, and has been awakening women and men with its...
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17 Sep 2001 · First published in 1963, "The Feminine Mystique" ignited a revolution that profoundly changed culture, consciousness, and lives. Today it newly penetrates to the heart of issues determining--and...
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11 Feb 2013 · Writing in a time when the average woman first married in her teens and 60 percent of women students dropped out of college to marry, Betty Friedan captured the frustrations and thwarted...
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4 Mar 2010 · The book that set Second Wave feminism in motion, Friedan’s galvanising polemic channels the frustrations of the women trapped in an oppressive system of strict social convention in 1960s America.
The Feminine Mystique and Me: 50 years of Intersections
In 1983 (or somewhere around there) I met Betty Friedan. She came to speak at Iowa State where I was teaching at the time, and as a member of the planning committee for bringing …
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Groundbreaking Ideas of The Feminine Mystique Most of the ideas presented in The Feminine Mystique were not new. Indeed, Mary Wollstonecraft had argued for many of the same …
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The Feminine Mystique Betty Friedan The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that …
Betty Friedan, 1921-2006: A Leader of the Modern Women's Rights Movement
Betty Friedan, 1921-2006: A Leader of the Modern Women's Rights Movement AP ... Her famous book, "The Feminine Mystique," changed America. Some people say it changed the world. It …
The Feminine Mystake - University of Birmingham
alongside the history of the period that was presented by Betty Friedan in The Feminine Mystique (1963). Friedan’s version of events has since become the dominant history of the period, but in …
Time: Reconsidering Betty Friedan - JSTOR
Time: Reconsidering Betty Friedan Dorothy Chansky Betty Friedan is readily acknowledged as "the mother of the modern feminist movement," "feminism's matriarch," and, perhaps more …
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The Feminine Mystique Elizabeth Whitaker,2017-07-05 In 1963 s The Feminine Mystique Betty Friedan challenged the vision 1950s America had of itself as a nation of happy housewives …
Questions for Excerpts from The Feminine Mystique
2. What was the purpose of attending college, according to Betty Friedan? 3. Although most women did not work outside of the home, those who did pursued what type of jobs? 4. How is …
Betty Friedan (February 4, 1921 – February 4, 2006) - eScholarship
Feminine Mystique—a mindboggling notion, given the book’s ultimate trajectory. It took Friedan five years to research and write The Feminine Mystique. When published in 1963, the book’s …
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“The most important book of the twentieth century is The Feminine Mystique. Betty Friedan is to women what Martin Luther King, Jr., was to blacks.” —Barbara Seaman, author of Free and …
Betty Friedan The Feminine Mystique (1963)
Betty Friedan – The Feminine Mystique (1963) The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a …
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THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE the neurotic, unfeminine, unhappy women who wanted to be poets or physicists or presidents. They learned that truly feminine women do not want careers, higher …
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Betty Friedan Betty Friedan was central to the reshaping of American attitudes toward women's lives and rights. Through decades of social activism, strategic thinking and powerful writing, …
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Friedan’s Answer: Change is due to the rise of the “feminine mystique”: Major characteristic of Mystique Natural Woman - Housewife Unnatural Woman - Career Woman (masculine, …
Introduction: ‘Women as Wives and Workers: Marking Fifty Years …
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1 Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (1963; repr., New York: W.W. Norton, 1997). 2 Howard Brick, The Age of Contradictions: American Thought and Culture in the 1960s (New York: …
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Mystique was published by Betty Friedan, a sociologist and psychologist. This book was widely welcomed by the public who stimulated a second wave of feminism movement. Through the …
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1 Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (1963; reprint, New York, 1974), 7, 37, 47, 58-59, 299. Human poten-tial psychology entered the mainstream mass culture in the late 1950s and …
The Problem That Has No Name - American Journal of Public …
War II, this mystique of feminine fulfillment became the cherished and self-perpetuating core of contemporary American culture. Millions of women lived their ... IN 1963, BETTY FRIEDAN …
Examining Masculinities and Femininity in Tennessee William’s A ...
R.W. Connell’s Masculinities (R. W. Connell, 2005), and Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique (Friedan, 2001) have been used as a framework to evaluate the male and female characters in …
The Feminine Mystique: Chapter 1 The Problem that Has No Name
14 Apr 2015 · Feminist Movement Lesson Plan by Kevin Murphy 1 The Feminine Mystique: Chapter 1 2 "The Problem that Has No Name" 3 4 Betty Friedan 5 6 The problem lay buried, …
Betty Friedan (b. 1921) “The Happy Housewife Heroine” Chapter …
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“MÍSTICA FEMININA”: UMA CRÍTICA - CORE
a brief reflection on the idea of Betty Friedan's "feminine mystique" focusing on the main scope of the "nameless problem". It is based on this presupposition latent in the work of the author …
The Feminine Mystique (1963) - JSTOR
15 May 2001 · 1. Betty Friedan, The Feminme Mystique (New York, 1964), 2.94. The book was originally published in 1963. 2. bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (Boston, …
The Retooling of Betty Friedan: The New Feminist Message?
In 1963 Betty Friedan completed her research and wrote the book The Feminine Mystique. It became the bible for women’s rights. She highlights how the experts told women their “role …
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The Feminine Mystique: Chapter 1 "The Problem that Has No Name" Betty Friedan The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange …
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The Feminine Mystique Betty Friedan,2013-02-11 A fiftieth anniversary edition of the trailblazing women's reference shares anecdotes and interviews that were originally collected in the early …
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The Feminine Mystique Betty Friedan,2013-02-11 A fiftieth anniversary edition of the trailblazing women's reference shares anecdotes and interviews that were originally collected in the early …
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historically, empirically, and personally grounded reflections on Betty Friedan's classic work, The Feminine Mystique. Coontz offers a critical homage to Friedan's book, which was one of the …
‘What is a wife’? Reconstructing domesticity in postwar Britain …
7 Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (London: Penguin Classics, 2010), 5. History of Women in the Americas 3 (September 2015): 61-76 ISSN 2042-6348 ©Caitríona Beaumont 63 and …
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The Feminine Mystique By Betty Friedan Wolfgang Guggemos. The Feminine Mystique: A Story of Awakening and the Fight for Freedom In 1963, a book titled "The Feminine Mystique" …
INTRODUCTION: WOMEN, POSTFEMINISM AND ROMANCE
Half a centuryseparates the publication of Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique, the book commonly credited with igniting the second wave of the women’s movement, and Facebook …
The Feminine Mystique
“The most important book of the twentieth century is The Feminine Mystique. Betty Friedan is to women what Martin Luther King, Jr., was to blacks.” —Barbara Seaman, author of Free and …
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“The most important book of the twentieth century is The Feminine Mystique. Betty Friedan is to women what Martin Luther King, Jr., was to blacks.” —Barbara Seaman, author of Free and …
‘Quite the opposite of a feminist:’ - University of Exeter
Phyllis McGinley, Betty Friedan and Discourses of Gender in mid-Century American Culture The period between the end of World War Two and the 1963 publication of Betty Friedan’s The …
Betty Friedan, “The Problem That Has No Name,” 1963.
Betty Friedan’s 1963 book The Feminine Mystique, from which this excerpt is taken, changed the lives of many American women by bringing their restlessness and unhappiness to public …
New Fuel for a Dying Fire: How Betty Friedan’s Feminine
suffered from the mystique, the theory of a patriarchal society that told women they should be completely satisfied with only their family and domestic life, avoiding the professional or …
S. Jay Kleinberg and Rachel Ritchie
1 Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (New York: Norton, 1963), 7. 2 Friedan, The Feminine Mystique, 17. History of Women in the Americas 3 (September 2015): 9-29 10 ISSN 2042 …
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The Feminine Mystique, ... Betty Friedan, 1963. teas. I can do it all, and I like it, but it doesn't leave you anything to think about--any feeling of who you are. I never had any career …
DEMYSTIFYING THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE: BETTY …
DEMYSTIFYING THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE: BETTY FRIEDAN’S BESTSELLER IN CONTEXT OF THE POSTWAR AMERICAN PARADOXES BY SALLY MA Known as the “Women’s …
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Betty Friedan died February 4, 2006 on her eighty-fifth birthday. Her passing marks the ending of an era of feminist revolution she helped to spark. Some would say that in America she started …
Funny and Tender and Not a Desperate Woman: Sylvia Plath's The
Bell Jar, Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, and Therapeutic Laughter Andrea Krafft Fifty years after their initial publications in 1963 by two graduates of Smith College, both Sylvia …
Daniel Horowitz. Betty Friedan and the Making of The Feminine Mystique ...
Betty Friedan and the Making of The Feminine Mystique: The American Left, The Cold War, and Modern Feminism. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998. 354 pp. $30.95, cloth, …
Social Change and Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique A …
23 Jun 2003 · analysis of Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique. I argue that Friedan’s accessible, middlebrow text gave birth to a new discursive politics which was critically …
Betty Friedan: Feminist Icon and Founder of the National …
2. Judith Hennessee, Betty Friedan: Her Life (New York, NY: Random House, 1999), 45. 3. Daniel Horowitz, Betty Friedan and the Making of “The Feminine Mystique”: The American Left, the …
Funny and Tender and Not a Desperate Woman: Sylvia Plath's The
Bell Jar, Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, and Therapeutic Laughter Andrea Krafft Fifty years after their initial publications in 1963 by two graduates of Smith College, both Sylvia …
