In the book, Friedan defines women's unhappiness as "the problem that has no name," then she launches into a detailed exploration of what she believes causes this problem. After three women's magazines refused to publish Friedan's results, because they contradicted the conventional assumptions about femininity, Friedan spent five years researching and writing The Feminine Mystique. At this reunion, she gave a questionnaire to two hundred of her fellow classmates, and the results confirmed what she had already suspected-many American women were unhappy and did not know why. Friedan began writing the work after she attended her fifteen-year college reunion at Smith, a women's college. However, one fact is certain: The Feminine Mystique sparked a national debate about women's roles and in time was recognized as one of the central works of the modern women's movement. Since its first publication, critics and popular readers have been sharply divided on their assessment of the work. When Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique was first published in the United States in 1963, it exploded into American consciousness.
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