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After World War II, some writers began to question how women in society were perceived and the role they played, particularly as the war had shown women made valuable contributions and in many cases performed tasks equally to me. In 1949, Simone de Beauvoir published <i>The Second Sex</i>, a groundbreaking book that questioned how society viewed women and the role in which they played. In her work, Beauvoir writes, “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” This quote represent how society fosters the idea of what a woman should do and act, where gender roles are learned and forced upon women. <ref> Vasilopoulou, Angeliki. "Woman by Choice:’ A Comment on Simone De Beauvoir’s Famous Phrase ‘One Is Not Born a Woman, but Becomes One'" <i>Journal of Research in Gender Studies</i> 4, no. 2 (2014), 489-490. </ref> Where World War II showed that women could break out of their gender roles as was required; the book questioned then why should women's roles that saw them as secondary to men in the workplace and home be perpetuated when this was clearly not the case during the war.
After a period of time, the movement gained greater traction through more authors in the 1960s. Betty Friedan wrote ''was perhaps one of the most influential writers at this time. After conducting a survey of her classmates, Friedan noticed that many of her classmates were unhappy in their marriages where their lives revolved around childcare and housework. This prompted her to write <i>The Feminine Mystique'' </i> in 1963 where so she questioned white, middle class femininity ideals of family life and motherhood, particularly as domestic life had stifled women and the seclusion of the private spheretheir aspirations. In her book, Friedan includes interviews with women who were just unhappy at in their home when society told them life, debunking the ideals of the 1950s that is was the only place they belongedoften showed a happy family with men at work and women focused on housework. This The book would begin to break down fundamentally questioned if the 1950s ideals were in the private and public sphere barriers that most best interest of women subscribed to. <ref> Ryan, Barbara. <i>Feminism and the Women's Movement: Dynamics of Change in Social Movement Ideology, and Activism</i>. New York: Routledge, 1992, 42. </ref> In 1969, Katy Millett wrote ''Sexual Politics'' and wrote about the patriarchal structure, which informed sex and gender oppression. Millets argued that before any other type of oppression existed, elite men first oppressed people based on sex and gender and then it extended to race and class. <ref> LeGates, Marlene. <i>In Their Time: A History of Feminism in Western Society</i>. New York: Routledge, 2001, 361. </ref> Carol Hanisch published an essay in 1970 titled “The Personal is Political.” Hanisch argued that everything was political. Whether a women decided to have an abortion and get a job as a woman in a male dominated industry, each of these decisions was ultimately a political. She determined that women needed to bring their ‘’private sphere problems’’ to the ‘’public sphere podium’’ in order to be heard. <ref>Lee, Theresa Man Ling. "Rethinking the Personal and the Political: Feminist Activism and Civic Engagement." Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 22, no. 4 (2007): 163-79. doi:10.2979/hyp.2007.22.4.163. </ref>
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