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The Problem with no Name

Rereading Friedan's The Feminine Mystique

Bibliographic Data

ID3945874
AuthorsRachel Bowlby (0000-0001-7759-6621, corresponding author)
Year1987
Volume27
Issue1
Pages61-75
Publication date1987-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFeminist Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/fr.1987.36
OpenAlexW2314371017
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited3

On an April morning in 1959, I heard a mother of four, having coffee with four other mothers in a suburban development fifteen miles from New York, say in a tone of quiet desperation, 'the problem.' And the others knew, without words, that she was not talking about a problem with her husband, or her children, or her home. Suddenly they realized they all shared the same problem, the problem that has no name. (Friedan, 1963: 15)1

Art · Feminism · Human sexuality · Literature · QUIET · Sociology · Tone (literature) · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media

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Unique citing works8
Citations per year0,27
Citation span1996 - 2025 (30)
Citation velocityrecent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 3
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