Feminist Critique Betty Friedan Analysis

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After 1950s, having happy family became most Americans, in particular, American white middle-class women the goal of life. However, under this great scenery, it also had a serious social problem, which stated in "Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan——Problem of Women. As the Primary Reader states, Betty Friedan mentioned her mother, “She was a beautiful woman and she was a very able woman. But she spent a lot of time in bed with colitis, and she dominated her husband and made her children`s life slightly miserable”(Primary 307). Therefore, After having children, she was eager to write a book to pose an unknown problem that the educated and middle-class white women had a generous feeling of emptiness and panic. She stated that, due to the fact