The Feminine Mystique Rhetorical Analysis

In this chapter of The Feminine Mystique, Friedan's analysis of functionalism shows how midcentury thinking strengthened the hold of the idea that a woman’s anatomy is her destiny. To further explain this analysis, Friedan makes use of several rhetorical devices such as anthetises when she establishes a connection between psychology, sociology and anthropology by stating that all these things should have been ‘powerful weapons to free women’ as they fought against prejudice, etc, but instead, cancelled each other out which trapped women in a dead center. Moreover, she makes use of a metaphor when she refers to the ‘Functionalism approach’ by calling it the ‘biggest anti feminist culprit’ as it viewed institutions in terms of structure and

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