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...Jane Fonda b) Betty Friedan c) Emmeline Pankhurst d) Estee Lauder...
...related note, Friedan also proposed that a new category of research appointment, the Research Fellow, be established. These fellows would have principle investigator rights for the purpose of pursuing outside funds...
...Betty Friedan, on the other hand, proved a formidable presence. Staff writer Nadya Labi traveled to Friedan's Washington apartment to work with the feminist icon on the brief reminiscence of the women's movement that accompanies our Emmeline Pankhurst story. "I perched cautiously on the sofa," recalls Labi, "and quickly stood when Ms. Friedan entered the room. Her pose was authoritative, and her manner direct." Especially when she expounded on sex and autonomy. Intoned Friedan: "As women move to greater rights, opportunities and control of their destinies, all the measures of sexual satisfaction increase...
...largely because, as the slogan went, they turned the personal into the political. They used their daily experience as the basis for a critique, often a scholarly one, of larger institutions and social arrangements. From Simone de Beauvoir's Second Sex to Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique to Kate Millett's Sexual Politics--a doctoral dissertation that became a national best seller--feminists made big, unambiguous demands of the world. They sought absolute equal rights and opportunities for women, a constitutional amendment to make it so, a chance to be compensated equally and to share the task of raising...
...surprising that Old Guard feminists, surveying their legacy, are dismayed by what they see. "All the sex stuff is stupid," said Betty Friedan. "The real problems have to do with women's lives and how you put together work and family." Says Susan Brownmiller, author of Against Our Will, which pioneered the idea that rape is a crime of power: "These are not movement people. I don't know whom they're speaking for. They seem to be making individual bids for stardom." It's easy to dismiss the voices of Old Guard feminists as the typical complaints of leaders...