Comparing Suppression of Women in Feminine Mystique, Radicalesbians, an

Suppression of Women through Isolation in The Feminine Mystique, Radicalesbians, and Trifles      It is far easier to break the substance of one human being than that of a united group of people. Betty Friedans The Feminine Mystique, Radicalesbians, and Susan Glaspells Trifles come to the same conclusion isolation and separation caused women to be vulnerable to domination by male society. Social stigmatization by men, an inability to describe the situation, and a lack of personal identity kept women isolated from one another. A fear of social stigma was one factor that kept women from supporting each other. In The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan discusses how American housewives went about their insouciant lives alarmed to ask even of herself the silent question Is this all? Women were told that family, a husband, and children would bring them fulfillment and when it didnt, they were afraid to admit that they werent happy. Freidans white, middle-cla ss housewives were afraid of living outside the feminine ideal they had grown up heari...