Question

What argument did Friedan make in The Feminine Mystique?

Answer 1

Answer:

What argument did Friedan make in The Feminine Mystique?

Traditional women’s roles made women feel worthless.

Women no longer wanted to be married and have children.

Traditional women’s roles made women feel fulfilled.

Women found a strong sense of identity in motherhood.

the answer is A.Traditional women’s roles made women feel worthless.

Which factor led to the astounding popularity of The Feminine Mystique?

Friedan argued that women’s roles should not change.

Friedan connected with her readers’ feelings.

Friedan avoided controversy in what she wrote.

the answer is B.Friedan connected with her readers’ feelings.

Answer 2

Betty Friedan's argument in The feminine mystique (1963) is made from the point of view of psychology and sociology through the analysis of surveys and interviews with women. Friedan was trying to explain why the surveys showed women were unhappy in their domestic lives.

The author found that women being educated to believe that domestic life should be their primary objective made women feel worthless.

This education for a domestic life happened through family, school, college, and media. There weren't many places women could get out of this destiny.

They felt worthless because a domestic life by itself doesn't provide a sense of realization and accomplishment. That's why, according to Friedan, it was so common to see women seeking fulfillment through community projects and the like.

The feminine mystique was a bestseller and one of the starters of the second-wave feminism in the 60s.