Who Is Betty Friedan´s The Feminine Mystique?

BETTY FRIEDAN “THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE AND THE WOMEN’S RIGHTS MOVEMENT” (1963)

Through history, women have not always had what we proudly have now, freedom, rights, liberty, influence, and power. In a period of time women did not had their destiny and life in their own hands, it was in the hands of their parents, after them husband and later kids and husband but never on their own. But in 1963 everything changed in favor to women, it was not easy, but it was the beginning of a revolution for women rights and freedom. All of this began thanks to Betty Friedan and her book “The Feminine Mystique”. This book started one of the biggest movements in history. It was a book that spoke for all women in the mid-twenty century, it spoke about the routine life of the American woman and the expected role as a woman.

In her free time she would write soft and boring articles, but in a point in her life she got tired of that and began to reveal her true feelings about her life and the unhappy that made her to be “just a wife “she started to write different, more honest and with liberty, such writings and thoughts did not take her anywhere in the beginning because most editors refused to publish any of her articles, they did not want to believe that the was the way women of America felt about their lives. Some editors agreed to publish here, but they would re-write her papers and say the opposite of what she was trying to show the world. After all of those not so successful articles she took the initiative and wrote what later became the symbol for the women’s rights movement. The book was “The Feminine Mystique” and after a great response from women all over America she went back to school to get a Ph.