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Work #497 · Late

The Feminine Mystique

Betty Friedan
1963 · English
Feminist cultural critique · American second-wave liberal feminism

Friedan's 1963 catalyst of second-wave American feminism — "the problem that has no name"

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Attribute The Feminine Mystique (Late)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Partial
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Both
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency None
Observer · Moral Authority Experience
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

The Feminine Mystique

The historical time of post-WWII suburban America.

Space

The Feminine Mystique

The American suburban-domestic space.

Matter

The Feminine Mystique

The embodied middle-class American housewife.

Observer

The Feminine Mystique

Friedan as feminist cultural critic.

Energy

The Feminine Mystique

Energies of "the problem that has no name".

Information

The Feminine Mystique

Foundational second-wave-feminist analytical framework.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

The Feminine Mystique

Friedan's middle-class-white framework critiqued by subsequent intersectional Black/working-class feminism.