the 1960s gradual erosion and uneasy footing had become a landslide. All the mm-ginap
ized groups whose suppression had been thought to be necessary for men to build secure
identities began to rebel. Friedan had finally named the “problem that has no name”-~ the
confusion, self-blame, and anguish of women who had been told “to seek fulfillment as
wives and mothers." For the second time in our history. women began to find their voices. At
first, Friedan noticed, women spoke with “a tone of quiet desperation” about thenr problems …