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Friedan was joined in a panel on women's liberation by Matina Horner, assistant professor of Social Relations, and Diana Gerrity, an editor of Atlantic Monthly and co-founder of Media Women of Boston. The panel was chaired by Antonia Chayes '50, associate professor of Political Science at Tufts...
...Horner and Gerrity echoed Friedan's belief that sex roles as presently defined inhibit both men and women. "Perhaps we should re-define what we mean by mental health in order to allow these roles to be defied," said Horner...
...Horner reviewed her research into achievement motivation in women. "Despite the recent emphasis on women's new freedom, there continue to be severe psychological inhibitions on achievement in women, despite the lack of external restraints," she said...
...cause of Horner's paralysis in the novel was his lack of an integral self. He is compared to "a day without weather." All men don masks but the novel's Horner is nothing more than the moods and masks he wears. Values are completely relative to him and his resulting inability to make choices causes his paralysis. His philosophical and practical relativism also prevents him from achieving any real relationships with the people he encounters despite the fact that he is perceptive and intelligent. Horner only manages to function through mytho-therapy, a practice recommended by the Doctor, through...
Southern chose to downplay Barth's major themes. The film only hints once at Horner's inability to choose. Mythotherapy is described in a sequence faithfully taken from the novel, but is never related to any of Jake's actions outside of the Farm...