Betty married Carl Friedan in , and the couple had three children. It was at a Smith reunion where Friedan found inspiration for what would become The Feminine Mystique. Intending to survey her classmates who had worried that a college education would get in the way of raising a family, what she instead found was a lack of fulfillment among the housewives. Other college-educated women she interviewed shared those sentiments, and she found herself questioning her own life role in the process.
To create The Feminine Mystique , Friedan included both the experiences of women she talked with and her own perspectives. Following the success of her book, Friedan moved back to New York City with her family, and in helped establish NOW with colleagues. She pushed the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to end sex discrimination in workplace advertising, advocated for equal pay, and pressured changes to abortion laws, among others.
Friedan also supported the Equal Rights Amendment, which failed to meet state ratification in but has since garnered renewed interest. She had already been criticized by some feminists for a lack of attention to issues afflicting non-white, poor and lesbian women, and had made disparaging remarks toward the latter. When conservatives made cultural gains in the s, she blamed radical members for causing it, denouncing them as anti-men and anti-family. First Edition. Used - Hardcover Condition: Good.
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Had the divorce gone through, Mrs. Suffice it to say that after the publication of The Feminine Mystique that year, fewer and fewer people—both men and women—were thinking that way anymore. From an early age, she drifted toward journalism, starting a literary magazine that was too controversial and thus went unpublished in her high school.
Goldstein planned to continue her studies at the University of California, where she had won a fellowship, but she felt compelled to turn it down when her success made her then-boyfriend nervous. As a one-time supporter of former Vice President Henry Wallace, Goldstein gravitated toward Marxism and landed a job as a left-wing labor journalist. Deeply unhappy, she got back in touch with a number of her college classmates from Smith and discovered she was not alone in her feelings of dissatisfaction and lack of fulfillment.
So Friedan set out to name the disease ailing her and her friends. The result was The Feminine Mystique , published in Norton, arranged for a book tour—which was unheard of then for an unknown author—and soon enough, the first paperback printing sold 1. Friedan noted the pressure on women to return to domesticity after World War II, believing it was exerted through magazines and popular culture.
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