... following female suffrage feminism experienced a loss of direction, almost at a loss of what to fight for. With the release of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique in 1963, feminism seemed to be rejuvenated with an abundance of purpose. One notable excerpt quotes Friedan trying to identify "the problem with no name ", which can be identified as the social and political limitations that many women ... ...

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... organize themselves and fight for themselves" (p. 76). When Pauli Murray, one of the women activists, gave a speech announcing that Title VII would do nothing for women unless they organized, Betty Friedan, the author of the famous book "The Feminist Mystique" contacted her and the two of them, with the help of the women in the PCSW network, created the ... ...

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... 's groups, all campaigning for different feminist goals. It is said that WLM grew out of the civil rights movement. It is also said that the book Feminine Mystique, written by Betty Friedan, cofounder of NOW, also played a role in the establishment of the WLM. The three main trends within the WLM were socialist feminism, liberal feminism and radical feminism; each saw women ... ...

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