Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
0-393-32257-2. 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 ...
ISBN. 978-0-671-41034-6. OCLC. 7717510. The Second Stage is a 1981 book by American feminist, activist and writer Betty Friedan, best known for her earlier book The Feminine Mystique. [1]
Betty Friedan. Betty Friedan ( / ˈfriːdən, friːˈdæn, frɪ -/; [ 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.
Who was Betty Friedan? Betty Friedan was an early leader of the women’s rights movement of the 1960s and '70s. Published in 1963, her book, "The Feminine Mystique," voiced the frustrations of ...
In the first chapter hooks critiques Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique (1963) as being a limited one dimensional perspective on women's reality even if it is a useful discussion about the impact of sexist discrimination on a select group of women, college-educated, middle- and upper-class married white women, namely housewives. hooks argues ...
Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique in 1963. In 1963, Betty Friedan published her book The Feminine Mystique [55] addressing the issues that many white-middle class housewives were facing at the time. Friedan's work catalyzed the second wave, and in particular the liberal feminist sector of the movement.
The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan (1963) "A Study of the Feminine Mystique", Evelyn Reed (1964) [248] Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Position Paper: Women in the Movement (1964) [249] "Jane Crow and the Law: Sex Discrimination and Title VII", Mary Eastwood and Pauli Murray (1965)
Perhaps the most notable intellectual response to Modern Women: The Lost Sex came in Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. Friedan first cites the popular culture impact of Lundberg and Farnham's work, specifically that magazines such as Ladies' Home Journal spread the authors' thesis across America.