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A review by jademgreen
The Problem That Has No Name by Betty Friedan
5.0
The feminine rage is real. Basically noted down almost 1/2 of this book. Some of my favourites:
What kind of woman was she if she did not feel this mysterious fulfilment waxing the kitchen floor? She was so ashamed to admit her dissatisfaction that she never knew how many other women shared it.
The problem was dismissed by telling the housewife she doesn't realise how lucky she is - her own boss, no time clock, no junior executive gunning for her job. What if she isn't happy - does she think men are happy in this world. Does she really, secretly, still want to be a man? Doesn't she know yet how lucky she is to be a woman?
We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: 'I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.'
It it is true that feminists were 'disappointed women', as their enemies said even then, it was because almost all women living under such conditions had reason to be disappointed.
Feminism was not a dirty joke. The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a stage of evolution far short of their human capacity.
What kind of woman was she if she did not feel this mysterious fulfilment waxing the kitchen floor? She was so ashamed to admit her dissatisfaction that she never knew how many other women shared it.
The problem was dismissed by telling the housewife she doesn't realise how lucky she is - her own boss, no time clock, no junior executive gunning for her job. What if she isn't happy - does she think men are happy in this world. Does she really, secretly, still want to be a man? Doesn't she know yet how lucky she is to be a woman?
We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: 'I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.'
It it is true that feminists were 'disappointed women', as their enemies said even then, it was because almost all women living under such conditions had reason to be disappointed.
Feminism was not a dirty joke. The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a stage of evolution far short of their human capacity.