Short Documentary The Feminine Mystique

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“If a woman had a problem in the 1950’s and 1960’s, she knew something must be wrong with her marriage, or with herself. Other women were satisfied with their lives, she thought. What kind of woman was she if she did not feel this mysterious fulfillment waxing the kitchen floor?” (62) “Betty Friedan is to women what Martin Luther King, Jr., was to blacks.” –Barbara Seaman “We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says ‘I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.” (77) “In that corner, the fiery, man-eating feminist, the career woman –loveless, alone. In this corner, the gentle wife and mother –loved and protected by her husband, surrounded by their adoring children.” (164)

Short documentary on Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique : 

Short documentary on Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique 1960’s American Literature Final Project Paula Alejandra Gutiérrez Cárdenas, May 2010

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MEN’S WORLD WOMEN’S WORLD NOTHING

THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE : 

SEX THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE WHERE AM I?

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FEMINISM IS THE RADICAL NOTION THAT WOMEN ARE PEOPLE

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WHO AM I?

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BETTY FRIEDAN 1921-2006

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BUT WHY?

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DISSATISFACTION SUBMISSION EXCLUSION DISSATISFACTION SUBMISSION EXCLUSION “LIBERATION” TO WORK TO VOTE TO CHOOSE TO STUDY TO THINK DEFINED PLACE IN SOCIETY NEW PLACE IN SOCIETY NEEDED I don’t know who I am anymore!! I WON’T CHANGE FOR YOU! I WON’T CHANGE FOR YOU! We want rights and equity! I WON’T CHANGE FOR YOU! I WON’T CHANGE FOR YOU! Why give us rights if we can’t use them?! I WON’T CHANGE FOR YOU! I WON’T CHANGE FOR YOU!

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SURE, IT’S EASIER NOT TO THINK. RIGHTS COME WITH RESPONSIBILITIES. NOBODY SAID IT WOULD BE EASY… Judith Butler Hillary Clinton Clara López Piedad Córdoba Mary McCarthy Betty Friedan Michelle Bachelet

AFTER THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE : 

AFTER THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE DIVORCE ABORTION MEN DOING HOUSEWORK AND CHILDCARE FINANCIALLY INDEPENDENT WOMEN PILL WOMEN’S STUDIES WOMEN’S INFLUENCE IN POLITICS SEXUAL POLITICS 50% OF LABOR FORCE 59% WORKING OUTSIDE THE HOME MARRIAGE AS CHOICE

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Bibliography: Encyclopedia of World Biography, “Betty Friedan”, 2010, http://www.notablebiographies.com/Fi-Gi/Friedan-Betty.html [accessed 20 May 2010] eNotes, ‘The Feminine Mystique: Author Biography.’ Nonfiction Classics for Students, 1998, http://www.enotes.com/feminine-mystique/author-biography [accessed 20 May 2010] Freeman, Lucy, ‘The Feminine Mystique’, Books of the Times, 1963, http://www.nytimes.com/1963/04/07/books/friedan-feminine.html [accessed 20 May 2010] Friedan, Betty, The Feminine Mystique, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2001. Video and narrating done by Paula Gutiérrez May, 2010