Chapter Three: The Crisis in Woman’s Identity Or, I Know You Are But Who Am I? Thesis alert! We finally get it on page 77, at which point a journalism professor would already have given Friedan an F for burying her lede:
Chapter Two: The Happy Housewife Heroine Or, “Et tu, Ladies’ Home Journal?” One of the most disturbing things Friedan points out in chapter two of TFM is how neck-snappingly fast the feminine ideal changed from the plucky, independent, individualistic, working New Woman of the late 19th and early 20th centuries [...]
Why am I doing this? Because I’m a lazy post-feminist who’s never read it. You want the long answer?
