Today, we explore the hauntingly beautiful legend of the Swan Maidens. This tale of shapeshifting women, love, captivity, and ...

We seem to be caught in rapid cycles of progress followed by backlash. During Trump’s first term, the #MeToo movement ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Almost a year before the 1963 publication of The Feminine Mystique —the zeitgeist-shattering book that would launch second-wave feminism and change the life of millions of women—author Betty ...

Exploring the feminine As part of SHE tour, Ramya and her students are doing three performances. After Chennai, they will be heading to Bengaluru and Mysuru next week.

Feminine mystique was one of the most influential concepts in the feminist movement, known to have triggered second-wave feminism in the U.S. in the 1960s. The concept was introduced by Betty ...

Director Olivia Wilde dubbed the new film “‘The Feminine Mystique’ on acid” Michelle Mehrtens - Arts and Culture Correspondent Florence Pugh (left) stars in Don't Worry Darling as Alice, a ...

A copy of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique was gifted to the National Museum of American History and exhibited in a 2015 exhibition "The Early Sixties: American Culture." NMAH, gift of ...