* 1963 – The publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique reawakens the Feminist Movement in the United States as women's organizations and consciousness raising groups spread.

Betty Friedan, in the Feminine Mystique, openly criticizes Mead for contributing to infantilizing women through functional anthropology, in Chapter 6, " The Functional Freeze, The Feminine Protest, and Margaret Mead.

* February 19 – The publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique launches the reawakening of the Women's Movement in the United States as women's organizations and consciousness-raising groups spread.

* February 4 – Betty Friedan, feminist author, The Feminine Mystique ( died 2006 )

* Betty Friedan-The Feminine Mystique

Lorde criticised feminists of the 1960s, from the National Organization for Women to Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, for focusing on the particular experiences and values of white middle-class women.

* Betty Friedan, American feminist and author of The Feminine Mystique

A leading figure in the Women's Movement in the United States, her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is often credited with sparking the " second wave " of American feminism in the 20th century.

Her activist work and her book The Feminine Mystique have been a critical influence to authors, educators, writers, anthropologists, journalists, activists, organizations, unions, and everyday women taking part in the feminist movement.

Allan Wolf, in The Mystique of Betty Friedan writes: “ She helped to change not only the thinking but the lives of many American women, but recent books throw into question the intellectual and personal sources of her work .” Although there have been some debates on Friedan ’ s work in The Feminine Mystique since its publication, there is no doubt that her work for equality for women was sincere and committed.

Horowitz explored Friedan ’ s engagement with the women's movement before she began to work on her book, The Feminine Mystique and argues that Friedan ’ s feminism did not start in the 1950s but rather before that in the 1940s.

Focusing on interviews that relate to Friedan's views on men, women and the American Family Sheman traces Friedan's life and explores The Feminine Mystique.

* The Feminine Mystique ( 1963 )

The Feminine Mystique, Hardcover Edition, W. W. Norton and Company Inc. 1963, ISBN 0-393-08436-1

" Rethinking Betty Friedan and The Feminine Mystique: Labor Union Radicalism and Feminism in Cold War America " American Quarterly, Volume 48, Number 1, March 1996, pp. 1 – 42

" Betty Friedan and the Making of " The Feminine Mystique ", University of Massachusetts Press, 1998, ISBN 1-55849-168-6

* Betty Friedan, Who Ignited Cause in ' Feminine Mystique ,' Dies at 85-The New York Times, February 5, 2006.

* The Sexual Solipsism of Sigmund Freud ( chapter 5 of The Feminine Mystique )

* Cheerless Fantasies, A Corrective Catalogue of Errors in Betty Friedan ’ s The Feminine Mystique

A new consciousness of the inequality of American women began sweeping the nation, starting with the 1963 publication of Betty Friedan's best-seller, The Feminine Mystique, which explained how many housewives felt trapped and unfulfilled, assaulted American culture for its creation of the notion that women could only find fulfillment through their roles as wives, mothers, and keepers of the home, and argued that women were just as able as men to do every type of job.

In the 2006 documentary, Don't Need You: The Herstory of Riot Grrrl, Hanna elaborates on the effect feminism had on her in childhood, recalling that her interest grew when her mother checked out a copy of Betty Friedan's " The Feminine Mystique " from the library.

Another important event of 1963 was the publication of Betty Friedan's influential book " The Feminine Mystique ", which is often cited as the founding moment of second-wave feminism.

Waley's translation can also be understood as the Esoteric Feminine in that it can be known intuitively, that must be complemented by the masculine, " male " ( or Yang ), again amplified in Qingjing Jing ( verse 9-13 ).

Lilith, the First Eve: Historical and Psychological Aspects of the Dark Feminine, translated by Gela Jacobson.

** Feminine nouns ending in a soft consonant or a soft consonant followed by a, e. g. vôňa → o voni, kosť (" bone ") → o kosti (" about bone ")

In Goethe's rendition, Faust is saved by God's grace via his constant striving — in combination with Gretchen's pleadings with God in the form of the Eternal Feminine.

* Hindu Goddesses: Vision of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Traditions ( ISBN 81-208-0379-5 ) by David Kinsley

* Hindu Goddesses: Vision of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Traditions ( ISBN 81-208-0379-5 ) by David Kinsley

* Hindu Goddesses: Vision of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Traditions ( ISBN 81-208-0379-5 ) by David Kinsley

* Tantric visions of the Divine Feminine: The Ten Mahāvidyās, by David R. Kinsley.

* Katherine M. Rogers, " Dreams and Nightmares: Male Characters in the Feminine Novel of the Eighteenth Century ," in Men by Women, ed.

* Goddesses and the Divine Feminine: A Western Religious History by Rosemary Radford Ruether ( 2006 ) University of California Press ISBN 0-520-25005-2, ISBN 978-0-520-25005-5

Feminine praenomina were generally abbreviated, if at all, in the same manner as masculine praenomina, but those abbreviated with a single letter were sometimes abbreviated by writing the letter upside-down, to indicate that the feminine form of the name was intended.

The word ' Hur ' is the plural of both Ahwar ( Masculine ) and Hawra ( Feminine ) which literally translates as " white-eyed ", or persons distinguished by Hawar, signifying " intense whiteness of the eyeballs and lustrous black of the pupils.

* Hindu Goddesses: Vision of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Traditions ( ISBN 81-208-0379-5 ) by David Kinsley

Another robopsychologist mentioned by name ( the only other one in the robot series ) is Clinton Madarian, who is introduced as being Susan Calvin's successor in the story Feminine Intuition.

* TRANS 15 ( 2011 ) Celebrating the 20th anniversary of " Feminine Endings " by Susan McClary: Special issue dedicated to Gender Studies, Feminism, and Music.

Two of the stories, " Feminine Intuition " and " The Bicentennial Man ", were inspired by Judy-Lynn del Rey.

Feminine nouns or names are typically made diminutive by adding the ending-ette: fillette ( little girl or little daughter, from fille, girl or daughter ); courgette ( small squash or marrow, q. e., zucchini, from courge, squash ); Jeannette ( from Jeanne ); pommettes ( cheekbones ), from pomme ( apple ); cannette ( female duckling ), from cane ( female duck ).

In 1963 Betty Friedan, influenced by The Second Sex, wrote the bestselling book The Feminine Mystique in which she explicitly objected to the mainstream media image of women, stating that placing women at home limited their possibilities, and wasted talent and potential.

" Feminine devotion is demanded as a duty by Montherlant and Lawrence ; less arrogant, Claudel, Breton, and Stendahl admire it as a generous choice ...." She finds that woman is " the privileged Other ", that Other is defined in the " way the One chooses to posit himself ", and:

# The Feminine Mystique, by Betty Friedan

Feminine hygiene is a general euphemism used to describe personal care products used by women during menstruation, vaginal discharge, and other bodily functions related to the vulva.

* Hindu Goddesses: Vision of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Traditions ISBN 81-208-0379-5 by David Kinsley

* Seeking the Feminine in God: Goddess worship accentuates female origins of the Almighty by Teresa Watanabe

One particularly controversial work is 1991's Feminine Endings, by Susan McClary.