Like the bestselling how-to guides for would-be wives that followed in its wake- The Rules, The Surrendered Wife-Andelin's Fascinating Womanhood told women what they wanted, and then explained how to get it. But Fascinating Womanhood, while lesser-known than Friedan's polemic, has had its own powerful impact on notions of women and their potential. We all know how The Feminine Mystique changed the world for countless women. In The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan complains that “the only passion, the only pursuit, the only goal a woman is permitted is the pursuit of a man.” Meanwhile, Helen Andelin's Fascinating Womanhood urges women to embrace that primary passion, because it leads to ultimate fulfillment and complete happiness.
Call it a feminist coincidence: Two books published in 1963 examine gender, sex, and marriage, but arrive at diametrically opposite conclusions.
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