The Feminine Mystique

it would look like what we had before Betty Friedan wrote The Feminine Mystique

they're sitting by a fire sipping hot cocoa celebrating reading the feminine mystique

Betty Friedan who wrote a book called The Feminine Mystique that in 1964 sold a million copies.

And she probably gets at least a short stuff all on her own. She was really interesting.

The reason she wrote this book is because she did a survey for a college reunion for her former classmates, learned that many of her former female classmates were not super happy about being homemakers and not being able to work.

And sent her down a research rabbit hole on this, kind of became her passion project because she wanted to write a magazine article, like a really in-depth one. No one wanted it.

So she ended up publishing it as a book called The Feminine Mystique, which kind of rocked the world of America in the early to mid-60s.

Betty Friedan who wrote a book called The Feminine Mystique that in 1964 sold a million copies.

And she probably gets at least a short stuff all on her own. She was really interesting.

The reason she wrote this book is because she did a survey for a college reunion for her former classmates, learned that many of her former female classmates were not super happy about being homemakers and not being able to work.

And sent her down a research rabbit hole on this, kind of became her passion project because she wanted to write a magazine article, like a really in-depth one. No one wanted it.

So she ended up publishing it as a book called The Feminine Mystique, which kind of rocked the world of America in the early to mid-60s.

Betty Friedan wrote a book called The Feminine Mystique that in 1964 sold a million copies.

The reason she wrote this book is because she did a survey for a college reunion for her former classmates, learned that many of her former female classmates were not super happy about being homemakers and not being able to work.

And sent her down a research rabbit hole on this, kind of became her passion project because she wanted to write a magazine article, like a really in-depth one. No one wanted it.

So she ended up publishing it as a book called The Feminine Mystique, which kind of rocked the world of America in the early to mid-60s.

Yeah, because like in this book, she's basically saying like this whole thing we're all going along with, this idea that the highest ideal a woman can aspire to is to be the best wife and mother she possibly can be and that that's her identity.

I associate that with the birth of the women's movement with Betty Friedan's book, The Feminine Mystique in 1963.

And I genuinely think that that has been the driving force in a lot of feminism basically since the feminine mystique.

you know, they're drawing upon a lot of discontents that were certainly there. I think everybody was feeling a certain spiritual malaise at that point in time. But the caricature of womanhood that you get when you go back to that to to that book, you know, you find her saying things like it's really it's like being in a concentration camp.

This is Betty Friedan's kind of, you know, inaugural text of second wave feminism.

And, you know, they're drawing upon a lot of discontents that were certainly there. I think everybody was feeling a certain spiritual malaise at that point in time, but the caricature of womanhood that you get when you go back to that book, you know, you find her saying things like, it's really, it's like being in a concentration camp.

in one famous debate feminist mystique author Betty Friedan told Schlafly I'd like to burn you at the stake I consider you a traitor to your sex I consider you an aunt Tom

in one famous debate feminist mystique author betty friedan told schlafly i'd like to burn you at the stake i consider you a traitor to your sex i consider you an aunt tom

in one famous debate feminist mystique author Betty Friedan told Schlafly I'd like to burn you at the stake I consider you a traitor to your sex I consider you an Aunt Tom

If you read Betty Friedan's Feminist Mystique...

it was kind of like considered to be how do I what's a modern equivalent it was like the eat prey love of like the 60 70s now you guys that it was so important that like everybody...

Betty Friedan dared women to get out of the kitchen and into workplaces. Friedan's book, The Feminine Mystique, was a call to arms.

Had they read Betty Friedan, who in The Feminine Mystique wrote about the restrictions on women in the 50s and early 60s and how they were expected to limit their lives to wife and mother.

I do think Betty Friedan describes her life so well. I doubt she ever read Betty Friedan. The book came out just a couple of years before my mother died in the early 60s.

they're the only good feminists in a lot of ways well my friend Mary Harrington and the reactionary feminists

Betty Ferdinand, the author of The Feminine Mystique, praised Betty's work on behalf of the women's liberation movement. Ferdinand called Betty, The very best kind of liberated woman. Your sensitivity and strength is going to be a wonderful boost for millions of mothers and daughters and American women generally.