Question

In at least 150 words, explain which central idea of Friedan's "The Problem that Has No Name" is also addressed in Plath's "Mirror."

Answer 1

Friedan describes the period of the 50s in which the educational model, disseminated after the Second World War, was aimed at women deciding to choose the option of returning home, after having conquered the right to vote and education and of having agreed to a job. The mystical expression of femininity, according to its author, is used to describe a conglomeration of traditional discourses and assumptions about femininity that hinder intellectual commitment and the active participation of women in their society. Without economic independence, the way of life of the housewife in this new technological home, produces loneliness, depression and other medical cadres qualified as "typically female". Friedan analyzes the economic system in which women are sold an identity consistent with the family unit of consumption in which the family has been transformed.