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    The Feminine Mystique

    Book by Betty Friedan

    The Feminine Mystique is a book by American author Betty Friedan, widely credited with sparking second-wave feminism in the United States. First published by W. W. Norton on February 19, 1963, The Feminine Mystique became a bestseller, initially selling over a million copies. Friedan used the book to challenge the widely shared belief that "fulfillment as a woman had only one definition for American women after 1949—the housewife-mother." In 1957, Friedan was asked to conduct a survey of her former Smith College classmates for their 15th anniversary reunion; the results, in which she found that many of them were unhappy with their lives as housewives, prompted her to begin research for The Feminine Mystique, conducting interviews with other suburban housewives, as well as researching psychology, media, and advertising. She originally intended to create an article on the topic, not a book, but no magazine would publish the work. Wikipedia

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  2. britannica.com

    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. She coined the term feminine mystique to describe the societal assumption that women could find fulfillment through housework, marriage, sexual passivity, and child rearing alone.
  3. en.wikipedia.org

    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. [3] [4] Friedan used the book to challenge the widely shared belief that "fulfillment as a woman had only one ...
  4. smithsonianmag.com

    Looking back on Friedan's seminal book, The Feminine Mystique, its narrow scope is important to recognize. As Graddy notes, it focuses on the aspirations of certain white college-educated ...
  5. goodreads.com

    The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan is an iconic book that relentlessly changed the way the American woman saw herself, until its first publication in 1963. Feministic in a good way, without the morbid extravaganza other reads of that type hold, it's relevant even now and if you don't choose to believe so, at least you can appreciate it as a ...
  6. litcharts.com

    Friedan notes the complicity of the media in promoting the feminine mystique and for blaming women's serious emotional problems on small, mundane matters, such as "incompetent repairmen." Worse, advertisers and women's magazines promoted an ideal of femininity— " the happy housewife" heroine —with which many white, suburban ...
  7. nationalhumanitiescenter.org

    THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE to take a job in a real-estate office. All she wanted, she said, was what every other American girl wanted—to get married, have four children and live in a nice house in a -nice-subtrrtÝ. The suburban hou'ewlfe—she of the éficän women it was said, of Women all over the world.
  8. openlibrary.org

    Landmark, groundbreaking, classic―these adjectives barely do justice to the pioneering vision and lasting impact of The Feminine Mystique. Published in 1963, it gave a pitch-perfect description of "the problem that has no name": the insidious beliefs and institutions that undermined women's confidence in their intellectual capabilities and kept them in the home.
  9. teachnthrive.com

    Feminine Mystique . 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 women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. The Feminine Mystique The Friedans eventually moved to the suburbs in the 1950s. They were typical ...
  10. litcharts.com

    The Feminine Mystique is a sociological study written in the subjective voice that characterized New Journalism—a type of non-fiction writing in which authors included their own voices or made themselves a part of the experience about which they were writing. New Journalism did not merely convey facts, as traditional journalism did, it also included the author's interpretation of and ...
  11. encyclopedia.com

    The Feminine Mystique. Betty Friedan 1963. Introduction Author Biography Plot Summary Key Figures Themes Style Historical Context Critical Overview Criticism Sources Further Reading Introduction. When Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique was first published in the United States in 1963, it exploded into American consciousness. Since its first ...
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