Word: feminist
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...once fired after she asked for maternity leave. Mystique began as research for an article on what had happened to her classmates in Smith College's class of 1942. The book made her a hero to a generation of educated, middle-class women and helped launch the modern feminist movement in the '60s. A co-founder of the National Organization for Women and the group later known as the National Abortion Rights Action League, Friedan eventually switched her attention to the plight of older people and wrote 1993's The Fountain of Age, which explored how the aged were patronized...
Betty Friedan, who authored “The Feminine Mystique” and spearheaded the 1960s feminist movement died of congestive heart failure Saturday in Washington, D.C. It was her 85th birthday...
...personal legacy is very bound up with the whole legacy of the feminist movement which was much, much broader than the book,” Cott said...
...once fired after she asked for maternity leave. Mystique began as research for an article on what had happened to her classmates in Smith College's class of 1942. The book made her a hero to a generation of educated, middle-class women and helped launch the modern feminist movement in the '60s. A co-founder of the National Organization for Women and the group later known as the National Abortion Rights Action League, Friedan eventually switched her attention to the plight of older people and wrote 1993's The Fountain of Age, which explored how the aged were patronized...
...renowned University of California, Berkeley feminist theorist Judith Butler wrote the letter, which is now available at www.facultydemocracy.org...