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An Analysis of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique - The Feminine Mystique (Hardcover)
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An Analysis of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique - The Feminine Mystique (Hardcover)
Series: The Macat Library
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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.
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