The Feminine Mystique
Title: The Feminine Mystique
Category: /Social Sciences/Sociology
Details: Words: 1270 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Feminine Mystique
Category: /Social Sciences/Sociology
Details: Words: 1270 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Feminine Mystique is the title of a book written by Betty Friedan who also founded
The National Organization for Women (NOW) to help US women gain equal rights. She
describes the 'feminine mystique' as the heightened awareness of the expectations of women
and how each woman has to fit a certain role as a little girl, an uneducated and unemployed
teenager, and finally as a wife and mother who is to happily clean the
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appear to be so little a
threat at the moment that it is hardly ever mentioned... Whatever its potentiality in sexual
politics, female homosexuality is currently so dead an issue that while male homosexuality gains
a grudging tolerance, in women the event is observed in scorn or in silence (pt. 3, ch. 8).' There
seems to be no distinction made between homosexual men and homosexual women in the media
and this causes another form of separation.