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...A.C.L.U., it considers the bill a dangerous threat to the First Amendment. So does an Ad Hoc Committee of Feminists for Free Expression, whose members include such noted writers as Betty Friedan, Nora Ephron and Erica Jong. In a Valentine's Day letter to the Judiciary Committee, the group argued that S 1521 is a "logical and legal muddle" that "scapegoats speech as a substitute for action against violence" and "reinforces the 'porn made me do it' excuse for rapists and batterers...
...exposes hypocrisy has performed a useful service, and Faludi is no exception. She has inspired men and women to take a new look at the messages they absorb, messages that act as barriers to understanding or to justice. But it is also appropriate to argue, as founding feminist Betty Friedan does, that feminism also needs to "transcend sexual politics and anger against men to express a new vision of family and community. We must go from wallowing in the victim's state to mobilizing the new power of women and men for a larger political agenda on the priorities...
...panelists, all bringing very different backgrounds and approaches to the topic, were writer Betty Friedan, psychoanalyst and author Juliet Mitchell, University of Wisconsin history professor Gerda Lerner and Williams College political science professor Dessima Williams...
...Betty Friedan, author of The FeminineMystique and founder of the NationalOrganization for Women (NOW), followed Williamswith a speech that stressed the need for a newparadigm in the fight for women's rights...
Despite one audience member's accusation thatLerner and Mitchell were not responding toAgarwal's question and that Friedan had sleptthrough Agarwal's speech, the colloquium ended ona congenial note...