Essays about: "Betty Friedan"

Found 2 essays containing the words Betty Friedan.

1. 1. The Feminine Wasteland: Gender Roles and Women's Mental Health in Joan Didion's Run River and Play It As It Lays

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Hanna Jyrinki; [2023]
   Keywords : Joan Didion; Run River; Play It As It Lays; Betty Friedan; The Feminine Mystique; Gender Roles; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : The American author and journalist Joan Didion was especially known for her non-fiction that pertinently described the culture she lived in, but her novels also offer a frank and realistic perspective on American society. In her two first novels Run River (1963) and Play It As It Lays (1970) Didion portrays the respective main characters, Lily Knight McClellan and Maria Wyeth, as fragile women who are failing to live up to the gender roles that were imposed on them. READ MORE

3. 2. "I was my own woman" - Breakdown and Recovery in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar and Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Karolina Kitanoska; [2013]
   Keywords : women’s role in the 1950’s and 1960’s; Individuality; identity crisis; housewife ideal; depression; eating disorder; objectification; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : During the 1950’s and 1960’s an unexplainable phenomenon arose amongst middle class women in North America. Women in the suburbs experienced a feeling of emptiness even though they believed they had everything they could ever ask for in life. READ MORE