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...Betty Friedan, author of The Feminine Mystique and founder of the National Women's Political Caucus, said yesterday that a new politics concerned with human priorities will form out of the present "sex role revolution...
...Betty Friedan, author of The Feminine Mystique, will speak today at 4 p.m. in the Tonkens Room, Winthrop House...
What outrageous things does The New Chastity say to produce these outraged responses? True, Miss Decter calls Betty (The Feminine Mystique) Friedan a "would-be intellectual" and grades Kate (Sexual Politics) Millett's celebrated textual analyses as "vulgarity almost not to be credited." But for the most part, she soberly reasons with her adversaries. For instance: Is society, as charged, "a vast cultural conspiracy" against women, who are "tricked or, let us say, massively guided into opting for housewifery"? Quite the contrary, Miss Decter decides. To assume so is to assume that women are either incredibly stupid or weak...
...steps behind the reader - she puts the whole sinister plot together. Why Stepford wives never use baby sitters. Why Stepford wives put the packages neatly in their carts at the supermarket. Why the Stepford Women's Club closed down shortly after it was addressed by Betty Friedan...
...Darn it!" They called themselves ladies as often as they said women, and they sometimes said hero when they meant heroine. They were, in short, Republicans, not Democrats. But for all their modesty of style and rhetoric, they had unexpected influence. 'I'm a Democrat," said Betty Friedan, who was observing the proceedings for McCall's, "but the emergence of women at this convention may be more important than what the women did at the Democratic Convention...