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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.
Betty Friedan (/ ˈ f r iː d ən, f r iː ˈ d æ n, f r ɪ-/; [1] February 4, 1921 – February 4, 2006) was an American feminist writer and activist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is often credited with sparking the second wave of American feminism in the 20th century.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Feminist theory is the extension of feminism into theoretical, ... Inspired by Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique, ...
Betty Friedan died of heart failure on her 85 th birthday, Feb. 4, 2006, at her home in Washington, D.C. This article originally appeared on Journal Star: Feminist pioneer and author Betty Friedan ...
(1921–2006) With the publication of The Feminine Mystique that defined "the problem that has no name" for generations of women, Betty Friedan became a leading force in second wave feminism. She was elected as the first president of the National Organization of Women (NOW) in 1966.
Friedan contends that "first stage" of feminism, a movement intended to liberate women from their traditional role as only mothers and house-wives, was coming to an end with the deadline for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, and that it was time to take feminism to a new stage, which could better deal with the issues of a new generation of women.
In 1963, Betty Friedan, influenced by Simone de Beauvoir's ground-breaking, feminist The Second Sex, wrote the bestselling book The Feminine Mystique. Discussing primarily white women, she explicitly objected to how women were depicted in the mainstream media, and how placing them at home (as 'housewives') limited their possibilities and wasted ...
The rise of second wave feminism in the United States spawned by Betty Friedan’s book, The Feminine Mystique, which was inspired by Simone de Beauvoir’s, The Second Sex, took significantly longer to reach and impact the lives of European women.