A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique And American Women At The Dawn Of The 1960s - Plot & Excerpts
THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE “LEFT ME BREATHLESS,” RECALLED GLENDA SCHILT Edwards, who was twenty-eight when she read the book, shortly after it was published. “I felt as though Betty Friedan had looked into my heart, mind, and psyche and . . . put the unexplainable distress I was suffering into words. I was astonished that before [reading the book] I could not express why I felt so depressed, even though my distress drove me to see two therapists at different times. Both therapists seemed to feel that I was having trouble ‘accepting my role as a wife.’” Janice K. was thirty-six and the mother of ten-year-old twins when a friend sent her The Feminine Mystique in 1963. The year before, she had seen a psychiatrist for eight months without ever getting to the bottom of her “troubles.” She became so indignant when she read the book that she sent a copy to her therapist “with a note saying he should read it before he ever again told a woman that all she needed was to come to terms with her ‘feminine nature.’”
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