Read the following excerpt from Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique. The suburban housewife—she was the dream image of the you
ng American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife—freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother. She was healthy, beautiful, educated, concerned only about her husband, her children, her home. She had found true feminine fulfillment. The underlined key terms most relate to what issue?
As The Feminine Mystique is a purely feminist book, is pretty easy to think that Friedan is giving us a feminist view on the way women were seen in the sixties. Feminism intention is to find equality among sexes and what Friedan does in this extract, is to show the key terms releated to feminism: "suburban wife", "dream image", "freed by science and labor", "healthy, beautiful, educated, concerned about her husband and children".
