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READERS WILL GET a nostalgic look at the women's movement this month when W.W. Norton issues a tenth anniversary edition of Betty Friedan's best-seller, The Feminine Mystique. Friedan, a recognized founder of the feminist movement, speaks anew in the edition's prologue and epilogue where she assesses the movement's progress since its beginnings...
...wish we could say that it's all over, that it's time to get on to other business," Friedan said to a Law School Forum assembly last month. "But we still must keep moving to change...at the same time that we see how far we've come...
...Friedan, the movement has come a long way in the decade since she pointed to the problem of sex discrimination in The Feminine Mystique. She calls feminism a "unique revolution"--a revolution moving through stages of consciousness which will ultimately bring women to full equality with...
Included among the Institute's facilities is the Schlesinger Library, whose archives contain the papers of Susan B. Anthony, Helen Keller and Betty Friedan, among others. The collection now owned by Radcliffe offers the most valuable research assistance in the country to women interested in women's history. Any student at Harvard and Radcliffe may use the library as often as do the Institute fellows, who incidentally, are a remarkably diverse lot. Their interests range from sexual dimorphism in mammals to dance as a film and video art form. Some of the work of Institute Fellows hangs...
Then Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan, and Germaine Greer organized the Women's Liberation Movement. They argued that women should re-evaluate their goals, their roles, and their bodies, and fulfill themselves in terms of what gives them the greatest personal satisfaction...