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Feminine
Mystique
Betty
Friedan
Hana Shazwin Azizan
Betty
Friedan
Born Feb 4, 1921 in Peoria, IL Youth spent in Marxist and Jewish circles Editor-in-chief of Smith College
newspaper; tone strongly anti-war 1942/3: BA and MA (UCB) in Psychology 1943-46: Wrote for The Federated Press 1946-52: United Electrical Workers UE News (reported on House Un-American Activities Committee) 1952: Dismissed from UE News because of second pregnancy 1957: Began framework for The Feminine Mystique
Betty
Friedan
1966: Founded National Organization for Women v Lobbied for enforcement of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Pay Act of 1963 v Forced Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to treat sex harassment claims seriously
v Successfully campaigned for 1967 Executive Order
extending the same Affirmative Action granted to blacks to women and a 1968 EEOC decision ruling sex-segregated help want ads illegal v 1970: Brought down nomination of G. Harrold Carswell to Supreme Court (he opposed 1964 Civil Rights Act workplace equality) v Aug 26, 1970: Organized Womens Strike for Equality on the 50th Anniversary of the Womens Suffrage Amendment to the Constitution. 50,000 women marched in NYC
Betty
Friedan
1969: Founded National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws,
renamed National Abortion Rights Action League after Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973 (Roe v. Wade, Doe v. Bolton)
v The Supreme Court ruled that a right to privacy under the due process clause
of the 14th Amendment extended to a woman's decision to have an abortion, but that right must be balanced against the state's two legitimate interests in regulating abortions: protecting prenatal life and protecting women's health. Arguing that these state interests became stronger over the course of a pregnancy, the Court resolved this balancing test by tying state regulation of abortion to the trimester of pregnancy. v The Court later rejected Roe's trimester framework, while affirming Roe's central holding that a person has a right to abortion until viability. The Roe decision defined "viable" as being "potentially able to live outside the mother's womb, albeit with artificial aid", adding that viability "is usually placed at about seven months (28 weeks) but may occur earlier, even at 24 weeks."
1971: Founded National Womens Political Caucus 1972: Unsuccessfully ran as a delegate to the 1972 Democratic
Friedans
Politics
Opposed equating feminism with lesbianism
v Uncomfortable with homosexuality and refused to consider it a main
issue in the feminist movement; she accepted it but not its politicization
Pushed the feminist movement to focus on economic issues,
especially equality in employment and business and provision for child care Supported concept that abortion is a womans choice Participated in Feminists for Free Expression in opposing the Pornography Victims' Compensation Act (did not pass into law)
v Under the bill, a person who was attacked after the attacker was
substantially spurred by pornography could sue the pornography's producers, publishers, distributors, exhibitors, and sellers without needing a prior criminal charge against the pornography itself
college graduates, focusing on their education, their subsequent experiences and satisfaction with their current lives. Published articles about "the problem that has no name, eventually expanded into a proper book
The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the 20th century in the United States. Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question Is this all?
Main
Criticisms
The Feminine Mystique of Marxism by Ellis Washington
v Friedan helped destroy the American family by driving a wedge between husband and wife by demonizing the position of housewives as domestic slaves and grossly romanticizing working outside the home.