The Study Of Betty Friedan’s Early Liberalism Feminism

Betty Friedan(1921-2006)is a celebrated writer and social reformer in contemporary American.She is one of the representatives of liberal feminism.Moreover,as an excellent feminist leader,in 1966,she founded the National Women’s Organization(NOW)that aims to promote women’s rights and interests in the United States.The organization took charge of various activities and supported women to participate in political life.Betty Friedan was the first chairman of the organization.In 1970,she helped organize the National Women’s Political Conference(NWPC).The organization promoted women to enter the state organs and local governments to strive for the right of political participation.As one of the most important leaders of the twentieth Century feminist movement,Betty Friedan has promoted the second feminist movement in the United States,she actively participated in promoting many other legislative processes of gender equality.Betty Friedan is called the mother of the modern women’s liberation movement in the United States.Betty Friedan inherited and developed the feminist thoughts of Mary Wollstonecraft,Simone de Beauvoir and Margaret Meade in the early stage.Pay attention to women’ s education,the awakening of women’s consciousness and the role of the sexes.based on the living situation of American women and the theoretical perspective of liberal feminism,Betty Friedan made an analysis of the situation of women in real life and exposed the meaning of "the problem that has no name".She criticized the "happy housewife" image and revealed the hypocrisy of the feminine mystique.She made an attack on the rigid thinking pattern and cultural misunderstanding,and pointed out the harm of "the feminine mystique" to the feminist movement.Betty Friedan called on women’s pursuit of equality,education and career.It became the spiritual pole of the second feminist movement and led the feminist movement into a new step.It can be said that Betty Freidan’ s thought is the epitome of the second American feminism and feminist movement.Betty’s early thoughts has been most vividly displayed in her book "feminine mystique".In this book,she analyzed and explored the concept of "Freud’s view of women","feminine mystique" "the question with no name",etc,and deeply touched the American women.The book was finally translated into 13 languages.Facts proved that Betty’s thoughts were thoroughgoing and agitative,women were encouraged to open the shackles of feminine mystique,get rid of confinement of traditional concepts,receive the same education as the male,possess a creative career,find balance in family and career to realize self-worth throughout the process.Betty’s thoughts has a profound and long-term influence on American society,it infected a generation of American women.Under the guidance of Betty Friedan,American women were instructed in thought and action,they began to think deeply about their own needs,self-development,the equal rights with men in the fields of politics,economy,education,work and so on.Betty called on women to face the future actively,to plan a new life blueprint for themselves and strive for a new life.No matter what kind of thought and social movement want to get a long life instead a short while,they must adjust themselves gradually according to the social reality.In this respect,Betty Friedan is a representative,she firmly laid the foundation and structure of feminism with her foresight and insight.Meanwhile,she tried to build an open theoretical system,which might be the greatest inspiration for us.According to the view of Liberalism thoughts,this text try to analyse Betty Friedan’ s early liberal feminism thoughts,and explore its rationality and deficiency.Owing to the limitations of the times and the uncertainty of the development,inevitably,there are some omissions in Betty Friedan’ s thoughts,but after more than half a century,Betty Friedan’ s thoughts still has its certain rationality and initiative.Afterwards,reveal the inherent inevitability of development and define the role of the Feminism development,in order to provide research resources for female self-cognition,female education and female employment and gender equality in contemporary Chinese.