Feminism offered few real options for unskilled housewives

Evidence

But thousands if not millions deemed it an easier path than the one offered by women’s “liberation.” For many housewives, the new opportunities feminism promised were not opportunities at all. To those who had few employable skills and no means or desire to escape the confines of their homes, feminism seemed to denigrate their very identity and threaten their already precarious existence. It was better to play the cards they were dealt. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 149

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Housewifery offers women freedom only as a negative, empty form. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1369; For many housewives feminism threatened identity more than it promised opportunity — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 149; Confined to domesticity, a woman cannot be expected to pursue the general interest — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1746
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Housewifery offers women freedom only as a negative, empty form. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1369; For many housewives feminism threatened identity more than it promised opportunity — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 149; Confined to domesticity, a woman cannot be expected to pursue the general interest — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1746