1. Women
In 1963, author Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique, a critique of middle-class ways of life that aided millions of women in expressing their discontent. ... In 1966, 28 professional women, including Betty Friedan, created the National Organization for Women (NOW) "to take action to bring American women into full participation in the mainstream of American society now." ... In respond Betty says, "No woman chooses to live a life without a home." ... Betty on the other hand has to become the feminist that is her true role. ... Betty does what no good wife should do divorce. ...
I find many parallels between women's experiences in the nineties with Betty Friedan's, in her essay: The Way We Were - 1949. ... I asked her to read the Friedan essay and let me know if she felt as moved as I was, and to share with me her experiences of sexism. Her immediate reaction was to point out that "Betty Friedan was a college educated woman and she had certain goals that never interested me." ...
Feminist Hypocrites "It's a sad sad world, when a girl will break a boy just because she can." These words, from a song by Fiona Apple, describe the current turn of the feminist movement. Feminism is a term that has been taken very lightly, and often adopted by women because the feminist movement is...
The subject matter of men and women is timeless. From Adam and Eve, in Genesis 2:4-3:24 to John Gray's Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus published in 1992, men and women have lived in this perpetual state of battle. Since we live in a world that for a very long time up until recently, had only...