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...Women's Lib rhetoric getting out of of hand? Yes, says the movement's founder Betty Friedan. In the August McCall's, she insists that "female chauvinist boors" are trying to "elevate women as a separate class" and that this "threatens backlash among women even more than men." Singling out Gloria Steinem for having referred to marriage as "prostitution," Ms. Friedan protests "the assumption that no woman would ever want to go to bed with a man if she didn't need to sell her body for bread or a mink coat. Does this mean that...
...mixture of razor-sharp perceptions and extremely decorous sensibilities, she professes to prefer Gloria Steinem to Betty Friedan, "because she's so pretty, and doesn't talk too much," and dismisses the Story of O because it's a parody of French literature--besides it's pornography!" Seeing everything as a phase in some historical sequence, she dislikes de Beauvoir's existentialism, because it is always searching for conclusions and final decisions. Hardwick's style is more open-ended and experimental; a sense of intellectual vagueness pervades many of her more casual thoughts because she is constantly seeking...
...women were already smarting from McGovern's failure to support on the floor their challenge to the South Carolina delegation, which they said lacked a sufficient number of women. In the caucus, McGovern had said that he "fully and unequivocally" backed the women on South Carolina. Betty Friedan complained: "We were cynically misused." Now they were outraged, and in the case of Gloria Steinem, tearful with rage. Calling the McGovern operatives "bastards," she had to be led from the floor in the middle of the abortion debate...
...this Women's Lib thing" filters in through television and newspapers. The library has copies of Simone de Beauvoir's Second Sex and Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique on its shelves, but not Kate Millett's Sexual Politics or Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch. The crisp explanation from Librarian Jeannette Winter: "I'll get them as soon as three people ask for them...
...along much better with female Republicans than I do with Larry O'Brien. I will go anywhere to work for a Republican woman running for office-or if it would help more, I would not go." While the caucus has its share of familiar liberationists like Betty Friedan, it also includes Liz Carpenter, the tart-tongued Texan who used to be Lady Bird Johnson's press secretary; Businesswoman Virginia Allan, who served as chairman of President Nixon's task force on women's rights; and former Republican National Committeewoman Elly Peterson, her party's candidate...