According to feminist history, the 1950s constitute a lapse in feminist literature as women in the post-war era were ushered into the realm of domesticity. In this article I argue that this perceived literary “gap” was both created and perpetuated by feminist historians and scholars who insist that Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique (1963) was the defining feminist text of the time. I offer an alternative discourse to that of Friedan by presenting feminist writers who challenge, rather than adopt, masculine ideology as the means to women’s empowerment. I end by encouraging feminists to allow commonly dismissed feminists from the 1950s, like Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown and domestic humor writers Shirley Jackson and Jean Kerr, into the feminist canon.

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Bad Gurley女权主义：战后家庭神话

根据女权主义历史，由于战后时代的妇女被引入家庭领域，1950年代构成了女权主义文学的失落。在本文中，我认为，这种被认为是文学上的“鸿沟”是由女权主义历史学家和学者共同创造和延续的，他们坚持认为贝蒂·弗里丹的《女性神秘》（1963）是当时女性主义的定义文本。通过介绍挑战而不是采用男性意识形态作为增强妇女权能手段的女权主义作家，我提供了弗里丹的另一种论述。最后，我鼓励女权主义者让1950年代通常被解雇的女权主义者进入女权主义经典之列，例如世界主义编辑海伦·格利·布朗（Helen Gurley Brown）和家庭幽默作家雪莉·杰克逊（Shirley Jackson）和让·克尔（Jean Kerr）。