...the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with the children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay...of herself the silent question — "Is this all?" flexible hours, and encouraging women to take scientific and technical jobs. Not just rebellious feminists...

...portray housework as a demanding full-time occupation. Though the suburban housewife of the 1950s-1960s was "afraid to ask even of herself the silent question, 'Is this all?,'" Friedan shows that busy-ness itself was a corollary of housekeeping and foreclosed considerations of...

...women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife a good work. A bishop then must be blameless, the...hospitality, apt to teach; not given to wine, no striker, BETTY FRIEDAN Ib. 1921). US feminist writer. The Feminine Mystique, ch. 1 (1963), opening paragraph...

...the beds, shopped the groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with the children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay...of herself the silent question — "Is this all?" — Betty Friedan Growing Up Female As late as 1970, Coasters were being told, "While carpenters are...

...bitterness, being a slave without the security of a slave. 38 BETTY FRIEDAN "That Has No Name" (1963) The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in...even of herself the silent question - "Is this all?" For over fifteen years there was no word of this yearning in the millions of words written about women,...

...suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slip cover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children,...even of herself, the silent question: 'is this all?' (Friedan, 1963: 13) Motherhood is not about having babies and living happily ever after but many women...

...material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lav beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question: Is this all?12 Here, then, was a new complication, something else to rumple the smooth security blanket that...

...those choices have become far more complex. 1963 The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan Is Published It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction,...of herself the silent question — "Is this all?" Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique A, Although a revitalized women's movement in the 1960s and 1970s...

...of tying women to kids and the kitchen. Suburban women struggled with a "problem that has no name." "As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched...of herself the silent question — 'Is this all?' " Were things really that bad? Friedan (who had herself left the suburbs for the city) was on to something...

...Problems in American Women's History, 2nd ed. Lexington, MA: DC Heath and Co., 1996, pp. 439-442.) The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in...herself the silent question — "Is this all?" The suburban housewife — she was the dream image of the young American woman and the envy/ it was said,...