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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"betty friedan"”.
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Bernard Shaw's Conception of the "Womanly" Woman
… opinions about woman's role. Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan, and Sidney Callahan have sought, to update the traditional concept of woman as mother and housewife in The Second Sex, The Feminine Mystique, and The Illusion of Eve, while Phyllis McGinley, on the other hand, has celebrated the glory …
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Gender discrimination and the future of equality
… equal employment opportunity for women; To quote Betty Friedan, women must "mobilize the power .. for a larger political agenda on the priorities of life.".
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Að vera móðir og manneskja: Greining á smásögum Svövu Jakobsdóttur með hliðsjón af íslenskri kvennabaráttu og kenningum um húsmóðurhlutverkið
… er sótt í skrif Virginiu Woolf, Helgu Kress og Betty Friedan til þess að útlista hvað felst í því starfi og hvaða áhrif slík vinna getur haft á líf kvenna sem því sinna. Meðal annars er bent á að húsmóðurhlutverkið er fremur einhæft og einkennist jafnan af stöðugum og endurteknum verkahring …
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"Myn owene woman, wel at ese" : feminist facts in the fiction of Mary McCarthy
… literary embodiments of the social ailment that Betty Friedan cited in her 1963 polemic, The Feminine Mystique.McCarthy's three autobiographies--Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1957), How I Grew (1985), and Intellectual Memoirs (1992)--illuminate many reasons for and consequences of her …
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Fractured Front: Gender, Authenticity, and the Remaking of the American Left after World War Two
… and teacher Stella Adler, liberal feminist Betty Friedan, Beat writer Joyce Glassman Johnson, and the women's liberationists who broke off from SDS had to fight to be included in this culture. I document their attempts to do so. Second, I argue that the connection between 1950s culture and …
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The Seduction of Feminist Theory
… of production has led feminists to assume that Betty Friedan was the only serious feminist writing in the post-war era. Recognizing seduction as a feminist reading practice allows commonly dismissed feminists, such as Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurly Brown and humor writer Shirley Jackson, into …
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Mothering as Feminism
<p>This critical essay proposes the concept of <em>mothering-as-feminism</em>, with the intention of interrogating American ideals of mothering and caregiving. Reforming the way we view mothering, as it relates to feminism, requires a re-evaluation of the American role of women and mothers—and how …
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The midlife crisis, gender, and social science in the United States, 1970–2000
This thesis provides the first rigorous history of the concept of midlife crisis. It highlights the close connections between understandings of the life course and social change. It reverses accounts of popularization by showing how an idea moved from the public sphere into academia. Above all, it …