The problem that has "no name" is an issues that lies buried and unspoken by many women in the United States. It is the idea that women are standing around at the end of a long day of taking care of the children, doing household labor, and taking care of all the family issues and saying to themselves "is this all there is to life". Women want to break the mold of just being homemakers, women want to be successful in the work force but also be great mothers. The problem has no name because women do not know how to begin how to fathom to deal with the problem. Women cannot figure out if there making this problem into a big deal and it's not them just imagining things.
Betty Friedan, the author of The Feminine Mystique, was a magazine writer who started to realize after writing articles about this issue that she herself struggled with it too. Friedan had children herself and often found herself wondering the same thing if this was all there was. I think feminism had made huge strides in minimizing gender inequalities but there is still a long way to go. Naomi Wolf talks about in her reading how feminism has not made strides in the media. Women are looked down upon and treated just as a peace of meet in my opinion. There bodies are just sex symbols and they are degraded so much. Wolf really attacks an issue that is almost a hidden issue. People always say how females have come so far, and we have, but there still so long that we have to go and that's what Wolf makes people realize in her book. Wolf pulls out in depth details about how the media affects our image of beauty. Wolf points out the fact that middle aged white men control the media therefore controls the image of what is beautiful. Men control the image of what female beauty is, and in a man's eyes according to the media a female should be skinny, beautiful skin, and blond hair. Naomi Wolf brought up a different issues in her book. I found the reading very interesting.
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