Random House issued the latest edition of the book in February 2007. Discussion groups exist on the Internet and in live venues.Įventually being reissued in several editions, Fascinating Womanhood (also known as 'The Book the Feminists Love to Hate') has sold over two million copies and has been translated into Spanish, French, Indonesian, Japanese and Russian. Additional online teachers have served over the years. The first online Fascinating Womanhood class was held in 2000-2001 by a woman from Kansas, Mrs.
The classes continue to this day, being held in several countries, including the United States, Japan, Australia, Mexico, and the Philippines. Going against the "second wave" feminist tide of the 1960s and beyond, the classes and book focused on women being traditional wives and mothers. She based the classes and her book on a set of pamphlets that were published in the 1920s and 1930s, "The Secrets of Fascinating Womanhood." The classes started with an enrollment of eight women and grew to the point that many hundreds of women taught Fascinating Womanhood classes.įascinating Womanhood spawned a grassroots movement. Andelin sold 400,000 copies from her garage through a publishing firm she and her husband founded, Pacific Press. Andelin has tried to bring the word to others through classes, a newsletter and another book aimed at single women called “The Fascinating Girl” (also pri vately published).Helen Berry Andelin authored the book Fascinating Womanhood in 1963 to correspond with marriage enrichment classes that she taught in Central California. Since “Fascinating Woman hood” transformed her own life, Mrs. “I thought that marriage should be like a fairy tale. and I felt that my own marriage had drifted to a state of medi ocrity,” she said. “I began to observe all the troubles marriages around me were having. Her concern with woman hood stems from the state of American marriage, she said. Andelin said he owned a mil lion‐acre ranch. Andelin promotes cat tle ranches in this country and Australia where Mrs. After two years, she dropped out in favor of marriage.ĭr. Andelin, a former dentist turned businessman, when they were both stu dents at Brigham Young Uni versity (they are Mormons) where she was majoring in home economics. “A man wants a woman he can put on a pedestal and worship from below, some one whose character is supe rior to his,” Mrs. Andelin eschews tweeds or tailored clothes, anything that Is masculine in dress.
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On role‐playing within a marriage, she describes the man's role as threefold: guide (he rules the household), pro tector (he performs tasks re quiring superior strength), and provider (as enunciated in the Bible).Ī woman, by the same token must be feminine, ma ture, childlike and beruffled. With the onslaught of women's lib, however, ‘Fasci nating Womanhood” as philosophy was never more needed, she feels. “I came to New York three times hoping Doubleday would publish it, but they decided it went against the main stream,” she said. Andelin stumbled on and de cided to revise called “Secrets of A Fascinating Woman” written in the twenties. “Fascinating Womanhood,” which gives step‐by‐step in structions on her method for captivating a husband, was published In 1963 as the re sult of some booklets Mrs. Andelin dangles the prospect of achieving “celestial love,” a ? that turns a garden variety housewife into a “domestic goddess.” To do this requires that a woman combine her angelic and human sides, she says, and her ideal woman is called “Angela Human.” “They will make it easier for those who are tired and bored to take jobs away from their homes.” “Day care centers will en courage women to leave home,” she said. Women's lib has particu larly gained her ire with its proposals for more day care centers.
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