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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