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Analysis Of Betty Friedan´s The Feminine Mystique

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Women believe it is time for true equality and fully equal partnership of the sexes . Although they had won the battle for voting, there was still the unfair treatment of women compared to men. Women believe they must be treated equally to develop their full potential. To obtain equality, women needed to change the way society thought of, spoke about, and treated women. Women’s awareness that they are, and should be, equal was called feminist consciousness (“NOW Statement of Purpose,” 1966).
The Feminine Mystique, published in 1963 by Betty Friedan’s, defined the “feminine mystique” as the idea that a woman’s happiness and identity, indeed what made her complete, required sublimating her own desires and interests to those of her husband
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