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.
A year earlier, she had her most significant book, Woman in the Nineteenth Century. It originally had appeared in the Transcendentalist magazine, The Dial, which she edited from 1840 to 1842. Fuller's Woman in the Nineteenth Century is the earliest and most American exploration of women's role in society.