Analysis Of Betty Friedan´s The Feminine Mystique
Like all people they want to be remembered, some go by fame, money, knowledge, but the one that gets overlooked the most is the greater good. You could be thinking though, what is the greater good? Well, it’s when you care more about others than yourself and are going to go through great lengths just to accomplish it. Many women throughout history have done an abundance of things for the greater good but many people overlook women.
“Are the women who finished college, the women who once had dreams beyond housewifery, and the ones who suffer the most?” Betty Friedan was a writer, feminist, and a woman’s rights activist who wrote the book The Feminine Mystique in 1963. Betty wanted male and female equality since in the 1950’s women were the …show more content…
Later in her life she created a collage for women and set it up for private practice. Elizabeth Blackwell wasn't just a beacon of education for women, she was there hope in promoting education in medicine for women, something in that time would be considered a practical joke for men yet she took it as a compliment and went on helping others until the day she died. “If society will not admit of woman's free development then society must be remodeled.” Elizabeth …show more content…
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a novel called Uncle Tom’s Cabin, it sparked controversy among the North and South about slavery. The story was based on a Northerner owning a black slave, which was very unlikely since the North had bad climate for growing cotton. When Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book was read by the Northerners who didn’t know anything about slavery, they realized the cruel punishments and how inhumane it was to the slaves, some Northerners turned into abolitionists but most now had a better idea about slavery and disapproved it. The South on the other hand was outraged and in some places they banned the book and burnt it, saying that it was false and that what happened in the book has never happened. To wrap this up Harriet Beecher Stowe was writing for the greater good of the slaves and hoped to spark a train of others who would also try to stop
“Are the women who finished college, the women who once had dreams beyond housewifery, and the ones who suffer the most?” Betty Friedan was a writer, feminist, and a woman’s rights activist who wrote the book The Feminine Mystique in 1963. Betty wanted male and female equality since in the 1950’s women were the …show more content…
Later in her life she created a collage for women and set it up for private practice. Elizabeth Blackwell wasn't just a beacon of education for women, she was there hope in promoting education in medicine for women, something in that time would be considered a practical joke for men yet she took it as a compliment and went on helping others until the day she died. “If society will not admit of woman's free development then society must be remodeled.” Elizabeth …show more content…
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a novel called Uncle Tom’s Cabin, it sparked controversy among the North and South about slavery. The story was based on a Northerner owning a black slave, which was very unlikely since the North had bad climate for growing cotton. When Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book was read by the Northerners who didn’t know anything about slavery, they realized the cruel punishments and how inhumane it was to the slaves, some Northerners turned into abolitionists but most now had a better idea about slavery and disapproved it. The South on the other hand was outraged and in some places they banned the book and burnt it, saying that it was false and that what happened in the book has never happened. To wrap this up Harriet Beecher Stowe was writing for the greater good of the slaves and hoped to spark a train of others who would also try to stop