PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1960S
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A medical condition in the 1950’s and 60’s that spread throughout women that doctor’s couldn’t understand or treat.
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There were women causing problems in the 1950’s and 60’s and people wanted them to go away so they never named them or talked about them.
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There was a feeling shared among many women in the 1950’s and 60 that they were unhappy with their current lives as homemakers, but they felt unable to talk about it in public.
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None of the above.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Friedan, however, noted that many housewives were unsatisfied with their lives but had difficulty articulating their feelings. Friedan deemed that unhappiness and inability to live up to the feminine mystique the “problem that has no name.”
Detailed explanation-2: -The “problem that has no name” stands in for the multifarious feelings of dissatisfaction that characterize the American housewife’s daily life, which she cannot seem to attribute to any one root cause-precisely because the sources of her unhappiness are so deeply engrained in her materialist, patriarchal culture.
Detailed explanation-3: -Tetrault says that The Feminine Mystique not only fails to discuss how the cultural expectations of the idealized housewife also afflicted non-white and poor women who could not hope to achieve that standard, but it also doesn’t provide meaningful structural solutions that would help women.
Detailed explanation-4: -Excerpted from: Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 1963). THE PROBLEM LAY BURIED, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women.