Essays Tagged: "Feminine Mystique"

The Feminine Mystique

The Feminine Mystique is the title of a book written by Betty Friedan who also foundedThe National Organ ... ndedThe National Organization for Women (NOW) to help US women gain equal rights. Shedescribes the 'feminine mystique' as the heightened awareness of the expectations of womenand how each woman has to ... an's hair. Many women wishedthat they could be blonde because that was the ideal hair color. In The Feminine Mystique,Friedan writes that 'across America, three out of every ten women dyed their hair ...

(5 pages) 166 0 3.5 Oct/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

"Paradox of Change" During Post-War America

close-knit communities despite massive mobility, changes in sex roles occurring in the face of the 'feminine mystique,' the emergence of cultural rebels in the midst of chilling conformity" (Chafe, p. ...

(5 pages) 88 0 4.2 Feb/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Betty Friedan's Biography.

h College graduates. By 1963, Betty wrote a book about the silent suffering of millions, called The Feminine Mystique.NOW (National Organization for Women) was created on October 29, 1966. Betty Becam ...

(2 pages) 52 0 4.6 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies

Feminist Ideals in Latin American literature and history

that has traditionally been quite askew from reality and ultimately alienating. Unlike the American feminine mystique, which was a media creation, the conceptualization of women in Latin American cult ...

(7 pages) 139 0 4.8 Sep/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature

"Censorship and Book Banning Cannot Be Justified"

lture in the way that it challenges cultural norms. For example, books such as Betty Friedman's The Feminine Mystique and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin ignited cultural revolutions by maki ...

(13 pages) 94 0 5.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Training with Jane.

and white. It is clear we have not eliminated the same problems that surrounded Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. Friedan is critiqued for highlighting "specific problems and dilemmas of leisure ...

(3 pages) 16 0 0.0 Nov/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Social Reforms of 1960's

the limited suburban life aroused, Betty Friedan, the author of the immensely influential book "The Feminine Mystique", took over the movement of feminism. Describing woman's life as a "comfortable co ...

(5 pages) 74 0 4.0 Jan/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Karen Campbell letter about Women's Rights in response to Betty Friedan.

over 30 million innocent unborn children?Consider, if you will, the following quotes from Freidan's Feminine Mystique, "Housewives are mindless and thing-hungry... ; They are trapped in trivial domest ...

(2 pages) 20 0 0.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Concerns and tactics of post-war feminism: in reference to "Our Bodies Ourselves" by The Boston Women's Health Book Collective, 1973.

s. Ruth Rosen's book, The World Split Open , discusses a significant feminist book of the time, The Feminine Mystique , and criticises it for not sufficiently dealing with the problems faced to women, ...

(7 pages) 48 0 4.0 Jun/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

The Women's Movement In the 1960's (Presentation Script)

cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1SEC830180 (May 07, 2007)Government of Canada "The Post-war period and the Feminine Mystique/ The quiet revolution and the second wave of feminism" Women's History Month 2000; ...

(4 pages) 45 0 3.5 Jun/2007

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > Canadian History

Cover Girls         When I was in first grade I wrote,

life, let me live it as a blonde", Betty Friedan quotes one woman saying in her literary work, "the Feminine Mystique " At the end of the fifties three out of ten woman dyed their hair blonde and sinc ... . Creating an epidemic of eating disorders, low self-esteem and physical alterations. 1.The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan 2.http://www.inch-aweigh.com/dietstats.htm 3.Effects of Objectifica ...

(6 pages) 1428 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

Understanding Feminism

a whole. Bra burning became an act which showed women's support of this phase of the movement. The Feminine Mystique, written by Betty Friedan, brought the conclusion that: "Women are victims of a fa ... or equal rights or simply the respect for individual choice.Work Cited: Friedan, Betty. (1963). The Feminine Mystique. W.W. Norton and Company Inc.McElroy, Wendy. (2002) Fox News Article. 21st Century ...

(4 pages) 63 1 0.0 Apr/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Evolution of a Social Movement

toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease." - Betty Frieden, The Feminine Mystique (1963).The Women's Rights MovementIn the litany of American struggles, none seems ... itical equality, as the two were inextricably linked. In 1963, Betty Friedan published her book The Feminine Mystique, a very controversial and influential narrative on the superficial role imposed by ...

(10 pages) 74 0 0.0 Jan/2009

Subjects: History Term Papers

Diversity Issues in Communication - Women in Engineering

ears, the rate of increase was astonishing. By 1983, 20 years after Betty Friedan had published The Feminine Mystique and a little more than a decade after Congress had passed the Equal Employment Opp ...

(6 pages) 26 0 5.0 Jan/2009

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies

Adaptation: How Anger Turns Girls into Chameleons by Cheryl Van Daalen-Smith

anger and that education is necessary for men in order for them to learn that a women can still be feminine even if she were to express emotions of anger. Furthermore, women need to see that their an ... xample, Betty Friedan spoke of the reason upper class white women became frustrated in her book The Feminine Mystique. However, she did not speak about what frustrates populations of women of Asian, A ...

(7 pages) 1711 0 0.0 Nov/2009

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology