Bruises Symptoms and Signs. 1  Initially, a fresh bruise may actually be reddish. 2  It will then turn blue or dark purple within a few hours, then yellow or green after a few days as it heals. 3  A bruise is commonly tender and sometimes even painful for the first few days, but the pain usually goes away as the color fades.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Feminine Mystique is a 1963 book by Betty Friedan which is widely credited with sparking the beginning of second-wave feminism in the United States.
1963: the beginning of the feminist movement. Sylvia Plath died in 1963. That was the question that echoed around a generation of US housewives in the early 1960s. Theirs was the problem with no name, wrote Betty Friedan in her 1963 bestseller, The Feminine Mystique, and the symptoms were legion.