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My aim is to teach her how to become 'The real woman,' the kind she is designed to be, the kind a man wants."ģ. "Within these pages I will point out those principles which she must obey if she is to be happy, loved, and appreciated. If a man does not love with his heart and soul, it is entirely the woman's fault."Ģ. It is reserved for those who arouse it in a man. "Love is not reserved for the young, the single, nor the beautiful. Since I would never want you to buy this book, I thought I might pull some quotes from it for you. The book inspired the "anti-feminist" movement, which is still going strong today, sadly. "Fascinating Womanhood" sold millions of copies, telling women that their one and only goal in life should be doing whatever it takes to please their husbands - anything less was a shameful failure.
Young women of today who have zero idea of how very real repression was back then might pick this up, read a few pages, and think it must be some new publication from The Onion. I was rummaging around in a local antiques mall this weekend, and came across a book that I was unfortunately familiar with, but hadn't thought about in many years: " Fascinating Womanhood" by Helen Andelin, published in 1963. Because of them, I was able to choose my life, rather than accept my lot. I am endlessly grateful to the generation of women before me who fought so hard and so long for the legal and medical protections that woman always deserved. Gonna have a little ME time, or a whole damn ME life, for that matter - as men always could. By the time I was a teenager, highly-effective birth control was widely available to women, freeing a generation of women for the first time to be able to say, nah, think I'm gonna go to grad school, think I'm gonna start a business, think I'm gonna wait awhile before taking on the responsibilities of a family. But it just wasn't right if a girl or young woman desired something else, and the pressure was constant and omnipresent to conform.īut I was lucky.
Well, OK, if you wanted to go to junior college for a secretarial course or teach Sunday School or work as a bank teller for a few years, no harm done. In the early '60s, girls were still expected to be sweet and submissive, pretty and perfect, and should aspire to no higher goal than snaring a husband ASAP and raising a family. But when I get really down about the subject, I make myself go back and remember that the America I was born into as a female has indeed changed, and for the better.
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I am often frustrated by the sad lack of progress we've made in 50 years - the idealistic, youth-driven belief of the 1960s that we would soon be living in a free, equal, and discrimination-free society has not come to full fruition, and likely never will. Now that I have a chunk 'o lifetime banked, it's sometimes a good exercise to look back and think about where the world was when I got here, and how it is now.
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