HIST 104A Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Joe Lieberman, Fannie Lou Hamer, Eugene Mccarthy
25 Mar 2017
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Unit 8 ids: the feminine mystique, the feminine mystique is a nonfiction book by betty friedan, first published in 1963, which is widely credited with sparking the beginning of second-wave feminism in the united states. In 1957, friedan was asked to conduct a survey of her former smith college classmates for their. She originally intended to publish an article on the topic, not a book, but no magazine would publish her article. In addition to case studies of 1950s women, the feminine mystique observes that women in the. It was not as if it had never occurred to women over the years to seek personal fulfillment. It has sold more than one million copies and been translated into multiple languages. It is a key text in women"s studies and u. s. history classes: for years, betty friedan toured the united states speaking about the feminine mystique and introducing audiences to her groundbreaking work and to feminism.
