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12 - “What Ever Happened to that Blond Girl?”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 September 2022

By
Ellen Berscheid
Edited by
Saul Kassin
Saul Kassin
Affiliation:
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
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Summary

When I graduated from high school in Reno Nevada in the mid-1950s, Betty Friedan had yet to publish The Feminine Mystique (1963), which is often credited as sparking a second women’s revolution equal to that of suffrage. At this time the revolution was already in progress, for I, along with many other young women, had already adopted many of the views Friedan was to express. We had rejected the assumption that all women would find their life’s fulfillment in domestic household chores and caring for a husband and children. I agreed with Friedan before she wrote it that women who married immediately after graduating from high school were volunteering to stint their lives at an early age.

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Pillars of Social Psychology
Stories and Retrospectives
 , pp. 97 - 104
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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