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...full to say anything. The "togetherness" theme played endlessly by McCall's magazine was a merchandiser's dream: the family as a consuming unit. Not everyone was satisfied. Halberstam's dissenters include Sloan Wilson, who popularized the rat race in The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, and Betty Friedan, whose The Feminine Mystique, along with Goody Pincus' birth-control pill, challenged traditional relations between men and women...
There are some notable missing people. If a chapter on Friedan, why not a mention of Simone De Beauvoir, whose The Second Sex, published in 1953, gave U.S. feminists a modern ideology? Klaus Fuchs, the British atomic spy, makes a number of appearances, but Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, executed for espionage in 1953, are strangely absent...
...library now holds the archives of many women's organizations including the National Women's Political Caucus and the National Organization for Women, and the papers of notable women such as Susan B. Anthony, Julia Child, Amelia Earhart, Betty Friedan, and Harriet Beecher Stowe...
...suggests. Rather, the news is that after 30 years of battling to shore up women's self-esteem and break down entrenched sex roles, the feminist movement has achieved nothing. That women have learned nothing. That women still bask in a sense of worthlessness that sounds ominously like Betty Friedan's "problem with no name." If all of this is true, feminists should regard this book with considerable alarm and demand that the problem be explored systematically (Heyn readily admits that her sampling is not scientific) to diagnose the cause and extent of the problem...
...incumbent Al Dixon in the Illinois Democratic Senate primary in March. Feminists seized on her triumph over Dixon, who voted for Thomas' confirmation as a Supreme Court Justice, as evidence that the Hill-Thomas backlash would propel women to power. "That was an improbable victory," says veteran feminist Betty Friedan, "so now it seems like an augury of things to come." But was it? Braun, a strong supporter of abortion rights, owed her victory less to women's anger than to the arrogance and myopia of her rivals. Both Dixon and challenger Al Hofeld, a lawyer, found Braun so insignificant...