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This 18 page paper discusses Betty Friedan's book The Feminine Mystique from a modernist perspective, with an emphasis on war imagery, and sexuality and gender issues. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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by the men they married, and by societal expectations. The "feminine mystique" is not only the title of the book she wrote but its central idea, which is that
that women are seen as fragile fairy tale creatures who need to be protected and coddled, who cannot make a decent living for themselves or handle decisions, and whose highest
aspirations should be to become wives and mothers. This paper discusses her book from a modernist perspective, with an emphasis on war imagery, and sexuality and gender issues.
Modernism In order to approach a critique of The Feminine Mystique from a "modernist perspective," we first have to understand what that means. As a literary technique, "the
modernist perspective is based on a belief that meaning resides in the text" (Serafini, 2003). Reading, in this framework, is seen as a cognitive process that readers acquire "through
formal instruction and use to uncover that meaning"; that in turn suggests that the people who are best equipped to "decipher" texts are "university professors and literary scholars" (Serafini, 2003).
Furthermore, in addition to finding meaning through "close textual analysis," comprehension of the text from a modernist perspective depends only on the readers cognitive abilities and not "the social context
of the reading event" (Serafini, 2003). Further, each text has one main idea that "only competent readers have access to" and the text can be "evaluated for correctness" (Serafini,
2003). In short, a modernist perspective is concerned with the ability of the reader to understand the text and its main idea (Serafini, 2003). But it also will
give us a chance to see if the authors text is correct. The Feminine Mystique was published in 1963, and is generally credited with igniting the Womens Movement, or at
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