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.

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

Early models in " Feminine Intuition " were " female caricatures ", used to highlight their human creators ' reactions to the idea of female robots.

Among the earliest all-female rock bands to be signed to a record label were Goldie & the Gingerbreads, to Atlantic Records in 1964, The Pleasure Seekers with Suzi Quatro to Hideout Records in 1964 and Mercury Records in 1968, The Feminine Complex to Athena Records in 1968, and Fanny ( who pioneered the all-female band sound in the early to mid 1970s ) in 1969 when Mo Ostin signed them to Warner Bros. Records.

The latter two were primarily sexually explicit performers, described as ' Archetypes of the Dark Feminine psyche ' personifying Kali, the Hindu Goddess of death, and Erzulie, the Voudoo Goddess of Love.

In 1957, Friedan was asked to conduct a survey of her former Smith College classmates for their 15th anniversary reunion ; the results, in which she found that many of them were unhappy with their lives as housewives, prompted her to begin research for The Feminine Mystique, conducting interviews with other suburban housewives, as well as researching psychology, media, and advertising.

The Jogini idols are generally representing a female figurine standing on an animal, a demon or a human head depicting the victory of Shakti ( Feminine power ).

* Feminine if they end in-a, otherwise masculine:

She appeared in A Feminine Ending at Playwrights Horizons, and in the Shakespeare Theater Company's performance of " All's Well That Ends Well " in Washington, D. C.

* Feminine rhyme, a rhyme that matches two or more syllables at the end of lines with the final syllable unstressed

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

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.

" Inspired by Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique, and other feminist classics from the 1960s, Relational-Cultural Theory proposes that " isolation is one of the most damaging human experiences and is best treated by reconnecting with other people ," and that a therapist should " foster an atmosphere of empathy and acceptance for the patient, even at the cost of the therapist ’ s neutrality ".

The plaza has a large fountain with programmed water jets and a big abstract sculpture at its center: " Feminine Landscape " by Gerald Gladstone.

Daniel Horowitz, a Professor of American Studies at Smith College points out that although Friedan presented herself as a typical suburban housewife, she was involved with radical politics and labor journalism in her youth, and during the time she wrote The Feminine Mystique she worked as a freelance journalist for women's magazines and as a community organizer.

A Strange Stirring: " The Feminine Mystique " and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s ( Basic Books ; 2011 ) 222 pages

* The Feminine ( December 2007 ) at Cross Street Studios .... Jenny and a security guard

Feminine and perky in nature, she can be a bit gullible at times and tends to be quick to judge.

**-eva ( Russian ( all nationalities of Russia ), Bulgarian, Macedonian ) Feminine equivalent of-ev

**-ova ( Russian ( all nationalities of Russia ), Bulgarian, Macedonian ) Feminine equivalent of-ov

Gender is manifested as the Masculine and Feminine principles, and manifests itself on all planes.

* Feminine gender words ( the same cases as above ):

At that same point in the trilogy, Langdon is preparing the manuscript for his fifth book, to be titled Symbols of the Lost Sacred Feminine.

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 ).

Feminine terms such as actress, waitress, and usherette are marked with respect to the masculine, both formally ( i. e., something is added to the masculine form ) and in the sense that only the masculine form can be used generically to describe a mixed-gender group of people.

Feminine women would have sex with adolescent girls: a kind of female pederasty, and masculine women followed male pursuits, including fighting, hunting and relationships with other women.

Richard Webster writes that the attack on " the psychoanalytic denigration of women " in The Second Sex helped to inspire subsequent feminist arguments against psychoanalysis, including those of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, Kate Millett's Sexual Politics, and Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch.

Do you promise that your detectives shall well and truly detect the crimes presented to them using those wits which it may please you to bestow upon them and not placing reliance on nor making use of Divine Revelation, Feminine Intuition, Mumbo Jumbo, Jiggery-Pokery, Coincidence, or Act of God?

In Hinduism, Sacred Feminine or Shaktism is one of the three major Hindu denominations of worship along with Vishnu and Shiva.

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.

* To Lord Byron: Feminine Profiles-based upon unpublished letters 1807-1824 ( 1939 ) with George Paston

Feminine, or femininity, normally refers to qualities positively associated with women.

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.

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.

Asimov's short story " Feminine Intuition " ( 1969 ) is an early example that showed gynoids as being as capable and versatile as male robots, with no sexual connotations.

Carrasco has also participated as a guest conductor for several international tours through Europe with the Hungarian National Philharmonic of Budapest, the Szeged Symphony Orchestra, both in Hungary, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Brasov, the Feminine Symphony of Austria, and the Chamber Orchestra of Tokyo.

The rebels had scarce logistical supplies and relied heavily on the Feminine Brigades of St. Joan of Arc, raids on towns, trains and ranches in order to supply themselves with money, horses, ammunition and food.

The Feminine Mystique begins with an introduction describing what Friedan called " the problem that has no name "— the widespread unhappiness of women in the 1950s and early 1960s.

The Feminine Mystique is widely regarded as one of the most influential nonfiction books of the 20th century, and is widely credited with sparking the beginning of second-wave feminism in the United States.

* Feminine ending, in meter ( poetry ), a line of verse that ends with an unstressed syllable

The single was called " Feminine Is Beautiful ".

AMC's Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner frequently attributes Sex and the Single Girl and The Feminine Mystique as heavily influencing the creation of his characters and scenarios, especially involving the single female office worker.