The Halloween of my fourth year, I dressed up as Pocahontas, my favorite female figure at the time. I wore traditional Native American braids, moccasins, a tunic and her signature necklace, which was ...

Friedan was the author of the revolutionary “Feminine Mystique” that persuaded women to seek their own identities, and also was co-founder of the National Organization for Women. She was much more ...

The tradwife movement, short for “traditional wife,” has gained traction on social media, encouraging women to embrace ...

There is no such thing as a bad friend. The societal expectations and collective imagination of what friendship should look ...

In an era when what it means to be a woman has become more restrictive, the rise in ‘trad-wife’ content on social media is a worrying sign, critic Aimee Walsh argues ...

The story begins where most everyone would expect it to, with “The Feminine Mystique,” the ennui of white, educated suburban women, Betty Friedan launching it all.

In the 1950s, despite an outward appearance of fulfilled lives, American housewives endured a hidden malaise — “the problem that has no name” — a silent yet pervasive discontent. Self-esteem, which ...

Feminist critic Betty Friedan wrote about the particular loneliness and emptiness of the 1950s era housewife in her 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique. She called it “the problem which has no name.” ...

Some of her work is on display at the Feminine Mystique Art Gallery in Tubac, about 45 miles south of Tucson. Wahl paints colorful depictions of the desert around the Tucson area.

Plath’s posthumous poetry collection changed the cultural landscape on its release in 1965. Its grace and power grip us still ...

Object Details Author Creedon, Pamela J Contents Women, media and sport : creating and reflecting gender values / Pamela J. Creedon -- The media's role in accommodating and resisting sterotyped images ...

What exactly is it about a book that makes it deserve the “best beach read” designation? The real inherent quality: It satisfies.