USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Feminine Mystique, a landmark book by feminist Betty Friedan published in 1963 that described the pervasive dissatisfaction among women in mainstream American society in the post-World War II period.

Detailed explanation-2: -The phrase “feminine mystique” was coined by Friedan to describe the assumptions that women would be fulfilled from their housework, marriage, sexual lives, and children. The prevailing belief was that women who were truly feminine should not want to work, get an education, or have political opinions.

Detailed explanation-3: -Which of the following points would presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon all have agreed on regarding Vietnam? Vietnam is such a small country that the United States cannot afford to become involved there when it should be worrying about the Soviet Union.

Detailed explanation-4: -Her book, The Feminine Mystique, published on February 19, 1963, shook the ground beneath an American society rooted in a myth of pleasant domesticity and supported by the physical and emotional labor of women. The book examines the many ways in which women were still oppressed by American society.