... children in the direction of rationality" (Steiner 80-81). Voicing dissatisfaction with the role of mother and homemaker could result in being labeled "mentally disordered, unfeminine, or both" (Nash 612). Betty Friedan, in The Feminine Mystique published in 1963, identified the struggle and sense of dissatisfaction that many women suffered during the period when Esther was coming of age (Nash 614). Plath ... ...

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