Word: friedans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...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...
...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...