The Feminine Mystique

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often went to great lengths to achieve
a thin figure. The look that women were striving for was the look of the thin
model. Many women wore tight, uncomfortable clothing in order to create the
illusion of being thinner and some even took pills that were supposed to make
them lose weight.
The role of women was to find a husband to support the family that they
would raise. Many women dropped out of college or never went in the first place
because they were lead to believe that working outside of the home was for men
and that it would not be feminine for them to get jobs and be single without a
husband or children to take care of.
An enormous problem for women was the psychological stress of dealing
with this role that was presented to them. The happily married, perpetually
baking, eternally mopping, Donna Reed that lived in every house on the block
with her hard working husband and her twelve children that existed in the media
made women feel that there was something wrong ...

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extensive
electoral and lobbying work in addition to organizing mass marches, rallies,
pickets, and counter-demonstrations. NOW re-instituted mass marches for women's
rights in the face of conventional wisdom that marches were a technique that
died out with the 1960s. A march in support of the Equal Rights Amendment drew
more than 100,000 people to Washington, DC in 1978. NOW's March for Women's
Lives in 1992 became the largest protest ever in the capital.
One of the ways that women's lives and experiences have been divided is
through discrimination based on sexual orientation. The 1960's fueled a lot of
strong movements and the Gay Rights Movement was one of the many that came out
of ...

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