UBetty Friedan. Ingxaki ilele kungcwatywa, kungakhange kuthethwe, kangangeminyaka emininzi ezingqondweni zabafazi baseMelika. Yayingumnqa ongaqhelekanga, uvakalelo lokungoneliseki, umnqweno wokuba abantu ababhinqileyo babandezeleke embindini wenkulungwane yama-20 eUnited States. Umfazi ngamnye wasedolophini wayesokola yedwa. Ngelixesha ebelungisa iibhedi, ethengisa ukutya, efanisa izinto ezityibilikisiweyo, esitya iisandwitshi zebhotolo yamandongomane kunye nabantwana bakhe, eqhuba i-Cub Scouts kunye neBrownies, elele ecaleni kwendoda yakhe ebusuku — ebesoyika nokuzibuza lo mbuzo uthe cwaka —'Ngaba lento konke? '
Lo ngumhlathi wokuvula we I-Mystique yabasetyhini ( I-WW Norton, 592 iphe., $ 25.95 ) , apho uBetty Friedan ongasekhoyo wapapasha iminyaka engama-50 eyadlulayo kule nyanga. I-mystique yobufazi, wabhala, ithi elona xabiso liphezulu kunye nokuzinikela kwabafazi kukuphumeza ubufazi babo. UFriedan waphikisa esithi, yintoni le igcina isizalo sabafazi abafundileyo emakhaya, bekhulisa abantwana emadlelweni, becoca indlu ngokungapheliyo, bezola ngezixhobo ezitsha zasekhitshini, utywala kunye nemicimbi ukuze kubulawe ukoyikeka okukhoyo kule nto. Ngokuka-Friedan, kwakusasazwa ngoochwephesha bengqondo, oonontlalontle, amadoda entengiso, abahleli bamaphephancwadi, iinkokeli zonqulo kunye nabongameli beekholeji. Kwaye, ukuba udliwanondlebe kunye nabasetyhini lwaluya kukholelwa, lwalusasazekile kwaye lwalunxunguphalisa. Phakama uyiphose, utshilo uFriedan. Qalisa ukusebenza, uyeke ukujonga ikholeji njengemarike yomtshato.
Ewe, siyenzile. UFriedan kunye nentshukumo yabasetyhini yee-60s kunye neye-70s banceda ukudala umhlaba apho abasetyhini babona umsebenzi owuzalisekisayo njengelungelo elingenakuphikwa. Le ncwadi, ke, kufuneka ibonakale imnandi, ikhululekile. Ayenzi njalo. Kodwa kuyothusa ngokumangalisayo kwiindawo-kunamaxesha amaninzi apho ungabona umbhali wamaphephancwadi wabasetyhini eFriedan ezinikezela kwisibongozo sokuphefumla-kwaye ngokumangalisayo ubufanasini. Ngasihlandlo sithile uFriedan ujikeleza ngokuchasene nobufanasini obusasazeka ngokungathi ngumsi omdaka kwindawo yaseMelika. UFriedan ugxekiwe ngokungamnyamekeli umphandi, okanye umbhali othembekileyo, okanye onomdla wamalungelo oluntu njengokuba wayenokuba njalo. Kodwa mhlawumbi ezi zigxeko zisecaleni kwenqaku. Zininzi iindinyana apho, ukuba ubungayazi imvelaphi yazo, unokuphazama kwizivakalisi ezibhalwe kwisigwebo sanamhlanje.
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