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The book sold more than 10 million copies and was the bestselling nonfiction book of 1974. [6] Grounded in evangelical Christianity , it taught that "It's only when a woman surrenders her life to her husband, reveres and worships him and is willing to serve him, that she becomes really beautiful to him," and that " A Total Woman caters to her ...
Feminine Forever is a 1966 book written by American gynecologist Robert A. Wilson. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The book characterized menopause and associated symptoms as a serious disease state and strongly advocated the use of estrogen -based menopausal hormone therapy to alleviate it, maintain femininity and well-being , and improve quality of life and health.
In How to Be a Woman, Moran calls for a fifth wave of feminism to rise up. [7] [8] Moran states, "But if there is to be a fifth wave of feminism, I would hope that the main thing that distinguishes it from all that came before is that women counter the awkwardness, disconnect, and bullshit of being a modern woman not by shouting at it, internalizing it, or squabbling about it—but by simply ...
Murdock stated that the heroine's journey is the healing of the wounding of the feminine that exists deep within her and the culture. [1] Murdock explains, "The feminine journey is about going down deep into soul, healing and reclaiming, while the masculine journey is up and out, to spirit." [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.
In his 1998 book Masculinity and Femininity: the Taboo Dimension of National Cultures, Dutch psychologist and researcher Geert Hofstede wrote that only behaviors directly connected with procreation can, strictly speaking, be described as feminine or masculine, and yet every society worldwide recognizes many additional behaviors as more suitable ...
The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan (1963) "A Study of the Feminine Mystique", Evelyn Reed (1964) [121] Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Position Paper: Women in the Movement (1964) [122] "Jane Crow and the Law: Sex Discrimination and Title VII", Mary Eastwood and Pauli Murray (1965)
"Throwing like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment Motility and Spatiality" is a 1980 essay by political philosopher and feminist Iris Marion Young which examines differences in feminine and masculine norms of movement in the context of a gendered and embodied phenomenological perspective.