Women achieved the vote with the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. After that the women’s movement went quiet as they were no longer united behind one cause. One book helped change. For this assignment you will read one chapter from that book:
In 1963, the book The Feminine Mystiquewas published and flew off the book stores as women absorbed the content, it helped with the rebirth of feminism in the 1960s (the creation of cheap and available birth control such as the pill also helped changed cultural norms).
For this assignment you are going to read the first chapter of The Feminine Mystiquefound here:
https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/ows/seminars/tcentury/FeminineMystique.pdf
(Links to an external site.) Chapter 1, pp. 15 – 32. It is a quick read.
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https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/ows/seminars/… ; read chapter 1, pp. 15 – 32.1. What is the problem that has no name? 2. Give three examples of how society fed into this problem:3. What was the average age of marriage for US women by the end of the 1950s? ________4. One third of American women worked by the late 1950s, who were they?5. Simone de Beauvoir also wrote a book The Second Sex, that also challenged accepted gender norms, how was that accepted in the US?6. What were some of the solutions suggested to fix this problem (such as the one offered in Harper’s Bazaar in 1960), name two:7. What pressure did the statistic that 75% of all American women married by the age of 24 put on women?8. Why did this book have such an impact at the time