1. IntroductionThe colloquial expression “Behind every great man is a great woman.” » would probably well represent the American consensus of the 1950s: the “happy” hegemony of the genre. The only occupation of which the suburban white woman was proud seemed to be her central role in the family as housewife and mother. However, in her book “The Feminine Mystique” (Friedan), American writer Betty Friedan describes the underlying melancholy of many female college graduates she interviewed. In her in-depth interviews, she focused primarily on their education, their private life experiences in the years after college, and their satisfaction with their current lives. They all felt an indescribable pressure, to confirm this image of an obedient housewife and attentive mother. It surprised her not only to see how intelligent, educated women sacrificed their own studies for the sake of their husbands' careers and the well-being of their children, but also to find that these women were ashamed to speak to loudly of the disillusionment with this prescription. role. “We've never had it so good, it became the slogan of the times” (Birmingham Feminist History Group 80) Feeling childishly guilty, surrounded by a dozen electrical appliances in her new kitchen and prone to The male opinion, a woman would not dare to complain about her unsatisfied feelings or express her need for a different life. Why were the women of this decade constrained to an unquestionable framework of attentive mother, loving wife and organizer of the “family” of the sacred institute? Why did the majority of women feel the burden of meeting these domestic expectations? The purpose of this article is to give the reasons for this obsessive study of the role of women by American society. In our search for patterns with...... middle of paper ......Press, 34:1(2008) 175-196.Wood, Linda, P. “Family in the Fifties: Hope, Fear , and Rock ´n Roll” OAH Magazine of History, Organization of American Historians, 11:3 (1997) 36-38. Non-periodical printed publications Black, Max. Models and Metaphors: Studies in Language and Philosophy. New York Ithaca, Cornell UP, 1962. Print Friedan, Betty. The feminine mystique. New York: W:W: Norton & Company, 2013. Print Martins Lamb, Vanessa. The 1950s and 1960s and the American woman: the transition from “housewife” to feminist. Ed. Michel Van der Yeight. Sud Toulon-Var: UFRdu Sud Toulon Var, 2011.Walker, Rebecca. Being real: telling the truth and changing the face of feminism. NewYork: Anchor, 1995. Print.Electronic SourcesElkholy, Sharin, N. Feminism and race in the United States. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, March 10, 2012