Apentix/AP US History/Unit 8: Period 8 (1945-1980)/Question

AP US Historyeasymcq1 pt

Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique (1963) is best remembered for

A.defending the traditional housewife role

B.demanding women's return to the workforce of the 1920s

C.opposing women's suffrage

D.arguing that many suburban housewives were deeply dissatisfied by lives confined to the home

Explanation

Core Concept

Friedan called the ideal of fulfilled domesticity a 'problem that has no name' afflicting educated middle-class women. The book's wide readership energized a new wave of feminism in the 1960s.

Correct Answer

Darguing that many suburban housewives were deeply dissatisfied by lives confined to the home

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