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...societies where sex roles are most polarized, and where women are outside the mainstream, sex is dirty, and violence breeds," Betty Friedan said last night...
...Friedan, founder and chairman of the National Organization of Women (NOW), was speaking at the Harvard Law School Forum to a capacity audience in Lowell Lecture Hall...
...Friedan was joined in a panel on women's liberation by Matina Horner, assistant professor of Social Relations, and Diana Gerrity, an editor of Atlantic Monthly and co-founder of Media Women of Boston. The panel was chaired by Antonia Chayes '50, associate professor of Political Science at Tufts...
Storks Fly. Betty Friedan, whose 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is credited with reviving the feminist movement, originally called the strike at the conference of the National Organization for Women in March. As head of the hastily assembled National Women's Strike Coalition, she had predicted an impressive turnout and was not dismayed by the figures. "It exceeded my wildest dreams," Friedan said. "It's now a political movement; the message is clear. The politicians are taking heed already...
...sudden awareness is another indication of the rising interest in the drive for women's rights, which in its current phase began in 1963, when Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique, a book exposing the vacuity of many suburban housewives' lives. In 1966, she founded the National Organization for Women (NOW), whose goals have now been largely adopted by the movement. Today it is the single largest group within the movement, with 5,000 members...