![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, each woman felt “a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that … struggled with … alone” (Friedan, p. Writing articles for women’s magazines in the 1950s, Friedan had an opportunity to visit with many suburban housewives, and her talks with them revealed how these women, who were supposed to be living the American Woman’s Dream had, in fact, a problem - a big problem. This might seem like a convoluted and abstract idea but, in fact, Fridan breaks it down into an entire chapter in her book. The passage was one that appears in a lot of college materials on feminist theory: The Problem That Has No Name. ![]() I took several courses in feminist theory and feminist literature, and one of our textbooks gave a snippet from Friedan’s book. I was first exposed to Friedan and her ideas in graduate school. How that came to be, I go into in the Forward of that book. This month, I’ve been talking a lot about Betty Friedan and her book, The Feminine Mystique, because the ideas in that book were an inspiration for the stories in the new edition of my first book Gnarled Bones and Other Stories. Photo Credit: Silhouette of woman’s face in a question mark, uploaded 9 February 2019 by Mohamad Hassan: mohammad hassan/ Pxhere/ CC0 1.0 ![]()
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