She saw how her mother’s emotions ruled her household and prayed that one day she would have a career like her father. This novel radicalised the way women thought of their femininity and what it truly meant to be a woman who was equal in American society.įriedan grew up in Peoria, Illinois during the depression, which led to many monetary struggles within her family causing secrets to build up and walls to grow around her heart and emotions. She is the author of multiple novels-most notably The Feminine Mystique which was published in 1963. Betty Friedan was born in February of 1921, just six months after the 19th Amendment granted all American women the right to vote. It just happened, I would say, by some miracle of convergence of my life and history, serendipity, one thing leading to another” (Friedan, 2000, p. “I never set out to start a women’s revolution.
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