{"id":1053,"date":"2018-12-19T20:39:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T20:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2018-12-20T01:17:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T01:17:11","slug":"a-problem-that-has-no-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/a-problem-that-has-no-name\/","title":{"rendered":"A Problem That Has No Name"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique in 1963, she shined a light on “a problem that has no name.” Following World War II and the 1950s, more and more women were feeling oppressed by their role as housewives. This was especially jarring when looking at the 1950s as the era f<\/span>ollowing the opportunistic 1940s for wo<\/span>m<\/span>en in the work force. The inevitable return to wo<\/span>m<\/span>en as housewives left wo<\/span>m<\/span>en across A<\/span>m<\/span>erica feeling disenfranchised. The\u00a0<\/span>Fe<\/span>m<\/span>in<\/span>ine\u00a0<\/span>M<\/span>ysti<\/span>que encouraged wo<\/span>m<\/span>en to recognize the pattern of fe<\/span>m<\/span>ale discri<\/span>m<\/span>ination and\u00a0<\/span>m<\/span>altreat<\/span>m<\/span>ent and actively protest the inequality. Friedan’s novel was a catalyst in launching the second wave feminism movement. The women who could identify with Friedan’s novel would come to identify as the feminists of the new era. Unlike first wave feminism, which concerned itself with women’s right to vote, second wave feminism would focus more on female independence in their sexuality and how they chose to express themselves free from oppressive norms of society. It would also focus largely on female liberation in the work place and in schools.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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