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Gender and TelevisionEssay title: Gender and TelevisionIn a two-part article written for TV Guide in 1964, best-selling author of The Feminine Mystique Betty Friedan claimed that television has represented the American woman as a “stupid, unattractive, insecure little household drudge who spends her martyred, mindless, boring days dreaming of love–and plotting nasty revenge against her.