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ISBN. 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 ...
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.
v. t. e. Second-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity that began in the early 1960s and lasted roughly two decades, ending with the feminist sex wars in the early 1980s [ 1] and being replaced by third-wave feminism in the early 1990s. [ 2] It occurred throughout the Western world and aimed to increase women's equality by building on ...
344. 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]
Feminist philosophy. The Second Sex (French: Le Deuxième Sexe) is a 1949 book by the French existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, in which the author discusses the treatment of women in the present society as well as throughout all of history. Beauvoir researched and wrote the book in about 14 months between 1946 and 1949. [ 3]
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 ...
Feminism is aimed at defining, establishing, and defending a state of equal political, economic, cultural, and social rights for women. It has had a massive influence on American politics. [1] [2] Feminism in the United States is often divided chronologically into first-wave, second-wave, third-wave, and fourth-wave feminism.
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)