In this chapter of The Feminine Mystique, Friedan's analysis of functionalism shows how midcentury thinking strengthened the hold of the idea that a woman’s anatomy is her destiny. To further explain this analysis, Friedan makes use of several rhetorical devices such as anthetises when she establishes a connection between psychology, sociology and anthropology by stating that all these things should have been ‘powerful weapons to free women’ as they fought against prejudice, etc, but instead, cancelled…
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