The problem that has no name from "summary" of The Feminine Mystique (50th Anniversary Edition) by Betty Friedan
The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the 20th century in the United States. Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question — "Is this all?"For over 15 million women in America, this was the mysterious problem that had no name. The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. There was no word for the problem that afflicted them, they did not know that it was a problem. They did not know that there was anything beyond their home, their children, their husband, their housework, their shopping. They had been taught t...
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