Friedan rejected Freud’s over-emphasis on sexuality and argued that it was society’s obsessive concern with the female body that discriminated against women. She promoted a focus on the socio-economic and cultural situations which determine women’s fate, rather than their lack of a body part. Yet feminist critics have never had a unified voice. Their strengths lie in the diversity of their perspectives. Yet a number of feminist critics found in Freudian psychoanalysis useful concepts which they adapted to their understanding of female sexuality and women’s relationship to motherhood, as we’ll
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