![]() ![]() ![]() Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. The first essay begins in the following way: ‘The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. By the mid fifties, 60 per cent dropped out of college to marry, or because they were afraid too much education would be a marriage bat.’ This denotes a crisis in society few women decided to pursue careers for their own fulfilment, working instead to support their families.įriedan’s work is all-encompassing, and she is very understanding of Everywoman. Friedan notices a marked shift between the 1920s and 1950s in the priorities of women in the United States: ‘A century earlier, women had fought for higher education now girls went to college to get a husband. I have read criticism about Friedan’s work before, and other tracts which mention her, but this was my first taste of her original work. In The Problem That Has No Name, one finds the titular essay, as well as a piece entitled ‘The Passionate Journey’. ![]() The selected work in this volume was first published in her seminal The Feminine Mystique (1963), in which Friedan ‘gave voice to countless American housewives… and set the women’s movement in motion’. The 41st book in the Penguin Moderns series is Betty Friedan’s The Problem That Has No Name. ![]()
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