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– A phrase used during the Victorian Era to refer to the changing position of women in society and what their new roles would be, as a result of social change and their growing political power. Reform bills in British Parliament addressed the question in the 1860s. Philosopher John Stuart Mill, for example, introduced an amendment to the Second Reform Bill of 1867 in Parliament which would have granted female property owners the right to vote.
The Woman Question Quotes in The Feminine Mystique
The The Feminine Mystique quotes below are all either spoken by The Woman Question or refer to The Woman Question. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 4 Quotes
Only men had the freedom to love, and enjoy love, and decide for themselves in the eyes of their God the problems of right and wrong. Did women want these freedoms because they wanted to be men? Or did they want them because they were also human?
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The first-wave feminists, or suffragists, had first made the case that rights for women were human rights. Women had no obligation—at least not a greater one than men—to live as if they existed for the sake of others. Friedan emphasizes the verbs “love,” “enjoy,” and “decide” in the first sentence to illustrate how men’s lives were traditionally active, while those of women were passive, and to show that society allowed men subjectivity while it demanded that women turn themselves into objects for others’ use. While men were only obligated to answer to God (Friedan’s use of the words “their God” Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possim
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