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...tried not to get so anxious over such a minor point. After, all, isn't this Fair Harvard--where feminist Betty Friedan is a "Fellow" at the IOP, and the Straus Cup competition includes one sport named "Volleyball" and another named "Women's Volleyball" (with fewer points going to the winner of the latter)? Where women trying to study Women's Studies as a Special Concentration are expected to "prove their seriousness" by overcoming obstacles designed to rival the Twelve Labors of Hercules...
...much has changed since the brassiere-burning fringe groups of the early 1970s. Betty Friedan, in her recent book The Second Stage charged that the feminist movement had erred in promoting the superwoman myth of the last decade, when women thought that to compete with men meant they had to be men. On that assumption, women wore suits, carried briefcases and before long the birthrate went down...
...Friedan called for a rerouting of the women's movement, where both spouses share the responsibilities of breadwinner and homemaker. The options become broader for everyone, and feminist women began to realize they are their own oppressors before anyone else--a notion which French overlooked...
This is the new society that Margaret Atwood strives to find in Dancing Girls, her new collection of short stories. Her vision, however, lacks the optimism of Friedan's fostering nervousness instead. At times her characters catch glimpses of a freer society, but they cannot transcend their mundane and cruel provincialism...
Nicholas J. Mitropoulos, Director of the Forum, yesterday admitted that the IOP was "negligent" and said he "regrets" not telling Bell and Friedan that the DSA was sponsoring the event...