Betty Friedan Discussion Board

Topic: Betty Friedan Discussion Board

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Betty Friedan explains that the Feminine Mystique relegates women to the home by compelling them to believe that their worth lies in the domestic sphere: “But the new

image this mystique gives to American women is the old image:”Occupation: housewife.” The new mystique makes the housewife-mothers, who never had a chance to be

anything else, the model for all women . . . Beneath the sophisticated trappings, it simply makes certain concrete, finite, domestic aspects of feminine existence–as

it was lived by women whose lives were confined, by necessity, to cooking, cleaning, washing, bearing children–into a religion . . . [and] As swiftly as in a dream,

the image of the American woman as a changing, growing individual in a changing world was shattered . . . Her limitless world shrunk to the cozy walls of home” (10-

11).

Consider the film Revolutionary Road and the way April Wheeler is portrayed. How do you see April Wheeler’s life and decisions arising as a product of the “Feminine

Mystique?”

Your initial posts should be at least 200 words long, submitted by Sunday before midnight.

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