Demystifying The Feminine Mystique: Betty Friedan’s Bestseller In Context Of The Postwar American Paradoxes
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Ma, Sally
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2019
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"Known as the “Women’s Emancipation Proclamation,” Betty Friedan’s bestseller The Feminine Mystique has long had the reputation of reviving feminism in the culturally repressive post-WWII period of the United States.1 Published in 1963, The Feminine Mystique presented Friedan’s indictment of the postwar cultural climate that convinced middle-class women they could find complete fulfillment through domesticity. Media and scholars often credit the book for resurrecting feminism and single-handedly starting the second-wave feminist movement...."
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Ma, Sally. “Demystifying The Feminine Mystique: Betty Friedan’s Bestseller In Context Of The Postwar American Paradoxes”. Report: West Point Undergraduate Historical Review. Volume 9 (2019): 12-30.
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West Point Press
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2993-5989