The suburban housewife-she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. How might this document fit with the earlier women’s movement of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?.Who was the intended audience of the document? In what ways might this limit the size and scope of the movement the writer was attempting to create?.Who wrote the document? What was her background?.Although an earlier generation of feminists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries had secured suffrage for women, Friedan’s book encouraged a new generation of feminists to seek a broader social change by which women would seek opportunities in careers previously denied to them. Their feelings of unfulfillment as stay-at-home wives and mothers provided the inspiration for The Feminine Mystique.The goal of the book was to empower fellow college-educated women to seek fulfilling careers outside the home and to not limit their options to simply being wives and mothers. She worked as a journalist in the 1940s and 1950s, and, as part of her fifteenth college reunion, she surveyed her graduating class about their lives. Friedan graduated from Smith College in 1942 and did graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley. The document provided is excerpted from The Feminine Mystique (1963) by Betty Friedan.
Use this primary source with the Betty Friedan and the Women’s Movement Narrative to discuss her book and its role in the women’s movement.
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