A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN BETTYFRIEDAN AND MARGARET MEAD
NANDITA RAVINDER
Assistant Professor of English, Cauvery College For Women, Annamalai Nagar
Trichy, Tamilnadu.
Email: nanditaravinder@gmail.com
doi: https://doi.org/10.33329/rjelal.7119.715

Abstract

This is a comparative study between Betty Friedan and Margaret Mead and their Feminine Mystique view. Mostly in all the columns, books and articles and television experts keep telling women their role was to seek fulfillment as wives and mothers. But Betty Friedan’s“Feminine Mystic”and Margaret Mead’s “Coming of age in Samoa” says, that the highest value and the only commitment for women is the fulfillment of their own feminity crossing the boundaries of genders with the hope that someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer signify merely an opposite of the masculine, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only of life and existence: the feminine human being.

Keywords: Feminism, anthropological, sexism

 

Key Words: female sensibility, self consciousness, journey, womanhood etc.

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