...for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffered Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night — she was afraid to ask even the silent question — "Is this all?"2 At the same time that suburban women read and identified with...

...groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at...ask even of herself the silent question — "Is this all?"1 Friedan found that women were repeatedly told how to breastfeed children and handle their toilet...

...successful high-earning men, all had children and all thought they should be fulfilled in their lives. 'But on an April morning in 1959, I heard a mother of four, having coffee with four other mothers . . . say in a tone of quiet desperation, "the problem". And the others knew, without words, that she...

...groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with the children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at...of herself the silent question — "Is this all?" flexible hours, and encouraging women to take scientific and technical jobs. Not just rebellious feminists...

...for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffered Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night — she was afraid to ask even the silent question — "It this all?"5 More directly, the movement for black liberation provided the...

...portray housework as a demanding full-time occupation. Though the suburban housewife of the 1950s-1960s was "afraid to ask even of herself the silent question, 'Is this all?,'" Friedan shows that busy-ness itself was a corollary of housekeeping and foreclosed considerations of...

...groceries, matched slip cover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauff eured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night — she was afraid to ask even herself the silent question — 'Is this all?' . . . The problem that has no name stirring in the minds...

...groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at...even of herself the silent question: "Is this all?" BETTY FRIEDAN Ib. 1921). US feminist writer. The Feminine Mystique, ch. 1 (1963), opening paragraph...

...groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with the children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at...of herself the silent question — "Is this all?" — Betty Friedan Growing Up Female As late as 1970, Coasters were being told, "While carpenters are...

...groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at...even of herself the silent question - "Is this all?" For over fifteen years there was no word of this yearning in the millions of words written about women,...