"Women have very little idea how much men hate them," declared Greer.
Even more controversially, these works attributed female oppression to men and an ideology of male supremacy. These books argued that gender distinctions structure virtually every aspect of individual lives, not only in such areas as law and employment, but also in personal relationships, language, literature, religion, and an individual's internalized self-perceptions. It was not until 1970, however, that the more radical feminist writings reached the broader reading public with the publication of Shulamith Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex, Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch, and Kate Millett's Sexual Politics. In the years following the publication of The Feminine Mystique, feminists developed a large body of literature analyzing the economic, psychological, and social roots of female subordination. By requiring women to subordinate their own individual aspirations to the welfare of their husbands and children, the "feminine mystique" prevented women from achieving self-fulfillment and inevitably left women unhappy. In The Feminine Mystique, she analyzed and criticized the role of educators, psychologists, sociologists, and the mass media in conditioning women to believe that they could only find fulfillment as housewives and mothers. The book traced the assumptions, customs, educational practices, jokes, laws, and modes of speech that socialize young women to believe that they are inferior beings.Ī decade and a half later, Betty Friedan made another important contribution to the development of feminist ideology.
Modern feminist thought traces its roots to a book, The Second Sex, published by a famous French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir in 1949. All are united, however, by a belief that women have historically occupied a subordinate position in politics, education, and the economic system. Digital History Printable Version The Growth of Feminist Ideologyįeminists subscribe to no single doctrine or set of goals.
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