Certain conservative Christian groups reject the book's teachings based on disagreement with Mrs. In addition, the book teaches women to embrace girlish appearance and mannerisms, which some feel is strange behavior for an adult woman. The book emphasizes traditional femininity and a wife's conditional obedience to her husband. She appeared in the March 10, 1975, issue of Time magazine, in an article called "Total Fascination".Īlthough many women perceive that Fascinating Womanhood helped their lives, the book's teachings remain controversial. She has been interviewed by Michael Douglas, Larry King, Phil Donahue, Hugh Downs, and Barbara Walters. Andelin made many media appearances over the years. Andelin also designed The Domestic Goddess Planning Notebook to help women keep their busy lives organized. Andelin include The Fascinating Girl, a book addressed to single women, which was originally published in 1969 and remains in print in 2007, and All About Raising Children, published in 1980. Andelin hosted a website where she gave advice on marriage and motherhood. Random House issued the latest edition of the book in February 2007.Mrs. 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. Helen Berry Andelin authored the book Fascinating Womanhood in 1963 to correspond with marriage enrichment classes that she taught in Central California. Andelin became the parents of eight children, four sons and four daughters. She graduated from Phoenix Union High School and attended Brigham Young University, where she majored in Home Economics.Īt Brigham Young University, she met and married Aubrey Passey Andelin, son of Aubrey Olof and Gladys Passey Andelin.Īubrey graduated from the University of Southern California School of Dentistry and practiced dentistry in Central California for many years. In her teens, Helen worked in a malt shop and at her parents' hotel. Helen was the youngest of seven children in this Latter-day Saint (LDS) household. The year 1920 saw the birth of daughter Helen to Dr. Controversial among feminists for its advice toward women's fulfilling traditional marriage roles, her writings are still supported and re-discovered as recently as 2012, with classes still being taught on-line and in seminars. Helen Berry Andelin (– June 7, 2009)was the founder of the Fascinating Womanhood Movement, beginning with the women's marriage classes she taught in the early 1960s.
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