Problem That Has No Name Of The Feminine Mystique By Betty Freidan
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The Problem Has no Name
In Chapter 1 “The Problem That Has No Name” of the Feminine Mystique by Betty Freidan, it starts with a problem that has been buried for long time and no one spoke of it. This problem is all about women and their incomplete lives that they were living as “suburban wives”. Also, this Chapter talks about how women were suffering from the lives they were living between education, children, and marriage. Most women kept this problem in silent and suffered from it. Women were being the one who make meals, feed the children and the husband, clean the house, bed the kids, and sleep beside her husband (Friedan). When some women wanted to solve this problem, they were called hopeless, ashamed, or neurotic. The problem that…show more content… The daily routine of most suburban wives was some things that women do to complete their children and husbands lives because women who did everything for them like feed them and bed them. Furthermore, according to Freidan “As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night--she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question--"Is this all?"(Friedan 1). When Freidan said the question “Is this all”, she was referring to the women ways of living because a suburban wife would ask this question because she feels empty and not important in live, which is true that living like this would make a person not to feel alive because of the daily routine that is done for someone…show more content… Friedan did not like that at all because of the way that women were treated. Friedan says that if a women did not like something and want to change it, it hard for her because she will be ashamed as if other like psychoanalysts described her. According to Freidan, “For over fifteen years women in America found it harder to talk about the problem than about sex. Even the psychoanalysts had no name for it. When a woman went to a psychiatrist for help, as many women did, she would say, "I'm so ashamed," or "I must be hopelessly neurotic"”(Friedan 6). This is totally unpleasant for Friedan because this is does not show just dissatisfaction, it also shows the loss of personality, and this is apparently the problem that has no name because it totally illustrate that women do not know what their problems, how to talk about it, or how to solve