Helen Berry Andelin (May 22, 1920 – June 7, 2009)[1] was the founder of the Fascinating Womanhood Movement, beginning with the women's marriage classes she taught in the early 1960s.
Controversial among feminists for its advice toward women's fulfilling traditional marriage roles, her writings are still supported and re-discovered as recently as 2016, with classes still being taught online and in seminars.
Andelin wrote the book Fascinating Womanhood in 1963 to correspond with the marriage enrichment classes she taught in Central California.
She sold approximately 300,000 copies from her garage through a publishing firm she and her husband founded, Pacific Press Santa Barbara.
Going against the "second wave" feminist tide of the 1960s and beyond, the classes and book focused on women developing deeply romantic relationships with their husbands and securing stable homes.
Eventually reissued in several editions, Fascinating Womanhood (also known as "The Book the Feminists Love to Hate") has sold over five million copies worldwide, and has been translated into Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Czech, Polish and Russian.
[7] In 2006, the Helen B. Andelin Papers were donated to the University of Utah, where they remain housed in the Marriott Library Special Collections.