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...occasionally exaggerated rhetoric of the feminists would not matter, except that it could discredit an important movement that still has a long way to go. Are suburban wives really comparable to the inmates of Nazi concentration camps? So Betty Friedan argued eight years ago, groping for strong words in The Feminine Mystique to stir up the feminist movement after its 43-year relapse following ratification of the 19th amendment. Now, having achieved some success, the movement might be expected to show greater responsibility. Instead, in countless books and "consciousness raising" sessions, hyperbole seems to have become its hallmark. "The majority...
THEN, TOO, the state must worry about 200,000 families still living in inadequate housing. Bernard Friedan and John Meyer claim that the housing program has that "special relevance" sought so earnestly for the middle class. Both the poor and nonpoor suffer from short supply and face a continuous market- continuous in the sense that it has been unresponsive to the needs of almost everyone. Real improvement for the poor, the liberals can say, will mean real improvement for moderate income families. But to glue this housing coalition together so that both groups benefit will put a higher price...
Greer also has some pragmatic criticism of the U.S. movement. Mrs. Friedan's vaunted accomplishment in desegregating Help Wanted columns simply meant that "more qualified women wasted more time and energy reading about, applying for and being rejected from jobs they had no chance of getting in the first place." As for the demand that women should get equal pay for equal work, Greer thinks it is much ado about little. The hard fact is that women very seldom do equal work. This is partly their own fault. "Opportunities have been made available to women far beyond their desires...
Without violating the text, which has been rendered into fluently idiomatic English by Christopher Hampton, the sure and subtle inflection of Patrick Garland's direction makes Ibsen appear as the godfather of Women's Lib. If it counts as an imprimatur, Betty Friedan was in the opening-night audience. Since Ibsen is a seductively powerful dramatist and the evening's didactic thrust is something like "Go thou and do likewise," it is important to examine Ibsen's intent and Nora's behavior...
...threatening to make any infatuation with them rather unthinkable. And it's to our dishonor that the American Indian will have to be rehabilitated before he can appear romantic again. And other chic causes? Like the Southampton party for women's lib. Certainly, whatever she may be, exotic Betty Friedan...