Online Book Club

Want to be a part of NeW, but don’t have a NeW chapter near you? Then, join the NeW Online Book Club. During the summer of 2013, we are discussing Liberty is No War on Women. Join the discussion by commenting on the posts found below.

Chapter 6: The Functional Freeze and Margaret Mead

Chapter 6 is Friedan’s dissertation on how Margaret Mead contributed to the Functional Freeze and ultimately failed the feminine movement. Friedan begins the chapter with her definition of the role “functionalism” played in American society: By giving an absolute meaning and a sanctimonious value to the generic term ‘woman’s role,’ functionalism put American women into a [...]

April 19, 2011 3 comments CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Chapter 5: The Sexual Solipsism of Sigmund Freud

If you are still trying to figure out what “solipsism” means, search no longer, I looked it up and Merriam-Webster defines it as: “a theory holding that the self can know nothing but its own modifications and that the self is the only existent thing;also : extreme egocentrism” Betty Friedan rightly names this chapter in [...]

April 11, 2011 0 comments CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Chapter 4:The Passionate Journey of The Feminine Mystique

Chapter 4 is an extensive history of the battles fought by the first feminists. Friedan points out that before the first feminists women were often treated as less-than and lacked the basic human rights to vote and own property. The first feminists fought to earn women equality and a voice in our society. Friedan quotes [...]

April 4, 2011 1 comment CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Chapter 3: The Crisis in Woman’s Identity

Last year, in a presentation I attended, best-selling author, rabbinic scholar, and the host of his own radio show in San Francisco, Rabbi Daniel Lapin argued that there is a kind of “magic alchemy” when humans are together creating a family, a community, or a city. He explains that we were each created with creative [...]

March 27, 2011 2 comments CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Be ready for Chapter 3 Book Discussion!

I’ll be posting on Chapter 3 of The Feminine Mystique on Monday, March 28th. Whether you get a chance to read it or not, make sure and take a look at the blog on Monday to see what ideas Betty Friedan sets forth in Chapter 3. In the meantime, check out this article in the [...]

March 24, 2011 0 comments CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

The Feminine Mystique, Chapter 2: The Happy Housewife Heroine

Chapter 2 of The Feminine Mystique is an interesting compilation of stories showing the modern (1960′s) woman only wanted the hearth, home and husband. According to Friedan’s observation in Chapter 1, women had given-up their desire for independence and instead turned all their attention to: . . . kissing their husbands goodbye in front of the [...]

March 14, 2011 3 comments CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Be Ready for Chapter 2 Discussion!

Annemarie will be posting on Chapter 2 of The Feminine Mystique on Monday, March 14th. Whether you get a chance to read it or not, make sure and take a look at the blog on Monday to see what ideas Friedan sets forth in Chapter 2.

March 9, 2011 0 comments CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Chapter 1: The Problem That Has No Name

The Feminine Mystique is credited as having started the second wave of feminism in America. With this in the forefront of my mind this week, I tumbled through the first chapter of The Feminine Mystique. Uncertain as to what I would find when I started out, I was a bit astonished to find the ideas of this feminist hero a bit hyperbolic and too general to reach the conclusions that she does.

I want to get your take on it, though. So whether you’ve read it or not, read below and let me know what you think.

March 7, 2011 5 comments CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

The Book That, “Touched The Lives of Ordinary Readers”

According to Louis Menand in his article posted on January 24, 2011 in The New Yorker, The Feminine Mystique: “‘. . . was a book that helped to change the world, or at least the way a lot of people saw the world“. Menard goes on to tell us why Friedan’s book was so successful: [...]

March 2, 2011 0 comments CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

The book that changed the world with a problem

It’s dedicated to “all new women, and the new men.” On the back cover it’s touted as “the book that changed the consciousness of a country – and the world.” It was Betty Friedan’s personal “question mark.” In fact, it was with this book, that Betty Friedan wrapped up a problem, “the problem that has no [...]

February 24, 2011 1 comment CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Online Book Club

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The Online Book Club will be starting their latest book this month.  What book would you like to be used?  Any suggestions?

February 2, 2011 4 comments CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

The War Against Boys: Chapter 7: Why Johnny Can’t, Like, Read and Write (Part I, page 158-168)

According to Sommers, modern pedagogues favor a progressive approach to education, one that encourages creativity and group learning: “Progressive pedagogues pride themselves on fostering creativity and enhancing children’s self-esteem. Exacting discipline and the old-fashioned “dry-knowledge” approach are said to accomplish the opposite: to inhibit creativity and leave many students with feelings of inadequacy. Progressives frown [...]

November 10, 2010 0 comments CONTINUE READING THIS POST →
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