SOC232H5 Chapter Notes -Frantz Fanon, Betty Friedan
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The problem that has no name- betty friedan. Books and articles by experts telling women their role was to seek fulfillment as wives and. They could desire no greater destiny than to glory in their own femininity (pg362) Suburban housewife was the dream image of young american women. True feminine fulfillment- healthy, beautiful, educated, concerned only about husband and kids (pg 363); respected as equal partner to man as a housewife and a mother) Simone de beauvoir"s second sex- americans thought that she didn"t know what life was about (pg364) Franz fanon colonizer"s presence in algeria based on military strength; resistance to this strength must also be of violent nature because it is the only "language" the colonizer speaks. Thus, violent resistance is a necessity imposed by the colonists upon the colonized. Decolonization is the substitution of one species" of mankind by another.
