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What's the Problem Now? Feminism's Dilemmas
Revisiting American women forty-some years after Betty Friedan.
By: DoubleX Staff
Posted: May 11, 2009 at 5:38 PM
In The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan argued that American women suffered from a malaise she called "the problem that had no name." Her critique of domestic ennui helped launch the second-wave feminist movement of the 1960s, leading to many of the advances women now take for granted. But not everything has changed. So we asked women to answer this question: If you had to pinpoint today's problem that had no name, what would it be?
We asked several women to answer that thorny question. We will be posting their responses throughout the week. You can read those essays here:
Terry Castle: How I Got Bored With Feminism [2]
Linda Hirshman: The Trouble With Jezebel [3]
Christine Rosen: Whine, Womyn, and Thongs [4]
Judith Shulevitz: Motherhood Changes You [5]
Katha Pollitt: Still the Second Sex [6]
Sandra Tsing-Loh: Let Them Eat Lead: Our Modern Obsession With Safety [7]
Latoya Peterson: Feminism's Problem With Race [8]
Katherine Mangu-Ward: The Feminist Makeover [9]
Virginia Postrel: The Myth That Women Can "Have it All" [10]
Elaine Showalter: Make it Work! [11]
Rebecca Traister: The New Language of Feminism [12]
Vivian Gornick: Why I'm Proud to Be a Feminist [13]
Frances Kissling: Embracing Pandora's Box [14]
Stephanie Coontz: It's the Men, Stupid! [15]
Fatemeh Fakhraie: Feminists Don't Understand Muslim Women [16]
Christina Hoff Sommers: Are Men the Second Sex Now? [17]
Links:
[1] http://www.doublex.com/users/double-x-staff
[2] http://www.doublex.com/section/news-politics/how-i-got-bored-feminism
[3] http://www.doublex.com/section/news-politics/trouble-jezebel
[4] http://www.doublex.com/section/news-politics/whine-womyn-and-thongs
[5] http://www.doublex.com/section/news-politics/motherhood-changes-you
[6] http://www.doublex.com/section/news-politics/still-second-sex
[7] http://www.doublex.com/section/news-politics/let-them-eat-lead-our-modern-obsession-safety
[8] http://www.doublex.com/section/news-politics/feminism’s-problem-race
[9] http://www.doublex.com/section/news-politics/feminist-makeover
[10] http://www.doublex.com/section/news-politics/myth-women-can-“have-it-all”
[11] http://www.doublex.com/section/news-politics/make-it-work
[12] http://www.doublex.com/section/news-politics/new-language-feminism
[13] http://www.doublex.com/section/news-politics/why-im-proud-be-feminist
[14] http://www.doublex.com/section/news-politics/embracing-pandora’s-box
[15] http://www.doublex.com/section/news-politics/its-men-stupid
[16] http://www.doublex.com/section/news-politics/feminists-dont-understand-muslim-women
[17] http://www.doublex.com/section/news-politics/are-men-second-sex-now