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...this helped ensure a profound impact for Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, published in 1963. In it, she argued that women lose their identities by submerging themselves in a world of house, spouse and children. The book came just at the height of the civil rights movement in the South; the pressures to give blacks a full place in society inevitably produced a new preoccupation with other second-class citizens. The Viet Nam War also led to far-reaching questions about traditional American assumptions and institutions, to a new awareness of injustice...
AIMS. The goals of the movement range from the modest, sensible amelioration of the female condition to extreme and revolutionary visions. The first camp includes the likes of Betty Friedan and emphasizes a more egalitarian society: equal pay for equal work, a nation in which women are not blocked from access to education, political influence and economic power. Items on the immediate agenda...
...sisterly hair pulling, Women's Liberator Betty Friedan (The Feminine Mystique) allowed as how Editor-Founder Gloria Steinem of Ms. magazine is "ripping off the movement for private profit. The media tried to make her a celebrity," Betty went on, "but no one would mistake her for a leader." Ms. Steinem said that her "stomach dropped" on hearing the remark. The truth, she replied, "is that the magazine has cost a lot of money, and it continues to cost me money, and every penny is worth it." Ms. Friedan responded by claiming she had been quoted out of context...
With a few exceptions-Wonder Woman was into Women's Lib 20 years before Betty Friedan-the comics have always appealed to men more than women, to little boys more than little girls. One reason is the inevitable boy companion that the ten-year-old could identify with-Batman's Boy Wonder Robin, the Sandman's Sandy, the Shield's Rusty, to name only a few. Even when the ten-year-old identified too closely with that clever brat on paper as a rival, it was good for sales. Cartoonist Jules Feiffer, who has lately turned...
...Betty Friedan could hardly ask for more pejorative typecasting. Still, Into Your Tent I'll Creep gives domestic equality a very fair run for its money. The girl is a nice French teacher named Miss Piano, whose forte is snatching the conversational ball from a man and running with it farther and more knowledgeably than he ever could. The boy is Al Banghart, a canny, easygoing Chicago skirt chaser and lowbrow who once flunked her high school French course. Besides being fond of Miss Piano, Al believes in her career. When they marry, he quits his nowhere...