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The Feminine Mystique ( PDFDrive ) (1)
Discontinuities in Cultural Conditioning.
10.
See William J. Goode, After Divorce,
Glencoe, Ill, AC. Kinsey, et al., Sexual Behavior in
the Human Male, Philadelphia and London, p. 259, pp. The male contempt for the American woman, as she has molded herself according to the feminine mystique, is depressingly explicit in the July, 1962 issue of Esquire,
“The American Woman, A New Point of
View.” See especially The Word to
Women—No’” by Robert Alan Aurthur, p. The sex-lessness of the American female sex-seekers is eulogized by Malcolm
Muggeridge (Bedding Down in the
Colonies,” p. 84): How they mortify the flesh in order to make it appetizing Their

beauty is avast industry, their enduring allure a discipline which nuns or athletes might find excessive. With too much sex to be sensual, and too ravishing to ravish, age cannot wither them nor custom stale their infinite monotony.”
13.
Kinsey, et al., Sexual Behavior in the
Human Male, p. See Donald Webster Cory, The
Homosexual in America, New York, preface to second edition, pp. xxii ff. Also
Albert Ellis, op. cit., pp. 186—190. Also
Seward Hiltner,’ stability and Change in
American Sexual Patterns in Sexual
Behavior in American Society, Jerome
Himelhoch and Sylvia Fleis Fava, eds, New
York, 1955, p. Sigmund Freud, Three Contributions to
the Theory of Sex, New York, 1948, p. Kinsey, et al., Sexual Behavior in the
Human Male, pp. 610 ff. See also Donald
Webster Cory, op. cit., pp. 97 ff.
17.
Birth out of wedlock increased 194 percent from 1956 to 1962; venereal disease among young people increased 132 per cent.
(Time, March 16, Kinsey, et al., Sexual Behavior in the
Human Male, pp. 348 ff, 427—433.

Kinsey, et al., Sexual Behavior in the
Human Male, pp. 293, 378, Clara Thompson, Changing Concepts of
Homosexuality in Psychoanalysis in A
Study of Interpersonal Relations, New
Contributions to Psychiatry, Patrick
Mullahy, ed, New York, 1949, pp. 218 ff.
21.
Erich Fromm, Sex and Character the
Kinsey Report Viewed from the Standpoint of Psychoanalysis in Sexual Behavior in
American Society, p. Carl Binger, The Pressures on College
Girls Today Atlantic Monthly, February,
1961.
23.
Sallie Bingham, Winter Term,”
Mademoiselle, July, Chapter 12. PROGRESSIVE
DEHUMANIZATION: THE COMFORTABLE
CONCENTRATION CAMP Marjorie K. McCorquodale, What They
Will Die for in Houston Harper’s,
October, 1961.
2.
See David Riesman, The Lonely Crowd;
also Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom,
New York and Toronto, 1941, pp. 185—
206. Also Erik H. Erikson, Childhood and


Society, p. 239.
3.
David Riesman, introduction to Edgar
Friedenberg’s The Vanishing Adolescent,
Boston, 1959.
4.
Harold Taylor, Freedom and Authority on the Campus in The American College, pp ff David Riesman, introduction to Edgar
Friedenberg’s The Vanishing Adolescent.
6.
See Eugene Kinkead, In Every War but
One, New York, 1959. There has been an attempt in recent years to discredit or soft- pedal these findings. But a taped record of a talk given before the American Psychiatric
Association in 1958 by Dr. William Mayer,
who had been on one of the Army teams of psychiatrists and intelligence officers who interviewed the returning prisoners in and analyzed the data, caused many pediatricians and child specialists to ask, in the words of Dr. Spock Are unusually permissive, indulgent parents more numerous today—and are they weakening the character of our children (Benjamin
Spock, Are We Bringing Up Our Children
Too Soft for the Stern Realities They
Must Face Ladies” Home Journal,
September, 1960.) However unpleasantly

injurious to American pride, there must be some explanation for the collapse of the
American GI prisoners in Korea, as it differed not only from the behavior of
American soldiers in previous wars, but from the behavior of soldiers of other nations in Korea. No American soldier managed to escape from the enemy prison camps, as they had in every other war. The shocking 38 percent death rate was not explainable, even according to military authorities, on the basis of the climate,
food, or inadequate medical facilities in the camps, nor was it caused by brutality or torture. “Give-up-itis” is how one doctor described the disease the Americans died from they simply spent the days curled up under blankets, cutting down their diet to water alone, until they were dead, usually within three weeks. This seemed to bean American phenomenon. Turkish prisoners,
who were also part of the UN force in
Korea, lost no men by disease or starvation;
they stuck together, obeyed their officers,
adhered to health regulations, cooperated in the care of their sick, and refused to inform on one another Edgar Friedenberg, The Vanishing



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