Female protagonists today are much more likely to be sexually-experienced and wisecracking career women. Instead of June Cleaver, we have Captain Marvel. Despite this cultural distance, though, many of Friedan’s observations still resonate today.
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Eberstadt on Eberstadt: Identity Politics' Roots in Secularization →
As the history of philosophy indicates, identity loss is bound up with secularization, which gives the self the impossible task of constructing meaning from scratch.
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