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Less on display but working just as hard behind the scenes were other softspoken, steely, resolute women intent on hammering out a party platform that would recognize women's rightful role in the G.O.P. The Republicans' answer to Gloria Steinem was Jill Ruckelshaus, wife of the director of the Environmental Protection Agency. "She has helped to de-radicalize the movement in the eyes of Republican women," says Kitty Clyde, a comely press aide to Anne Armstrong. De-radicalize? A phrase is born. A Roman Catholic mother of five with the clear-eyed look of a swimming instructor...
...Hitler's holocaust remains the century's central metaphor of evil. Throughout the '60s, by a process of escalating outrage, the device debased what was left of political dialogue. Radicals painted "Amerika" on campus walls. Police were "fascist pigs." Women's Lib's Gloria Steinem even took up the cry recently, claiming that a female reading Playboy must experience the same revulsion that a Jew would feel encountering a Nazi manual. Meantime, ideologues on the other side professed to see Brownshirts in the bearded radicals...
...getting out of of hand? Yes, says the movement's founder Betty Friedan. In the August McCall's, she insists that "female chauvinist boors" are trying to "elevate women as a separate class" and that this "threatens backlash among women even more than men." Singling out Gloria Steinem for having referred to marriage as "prostitution," Ms. Friedan protests "the assumption that no woman would ever want to go to bed with a man if she didn't need to sell her body for bread or a mink coat. Does this mean that any woman who admits tenderness...
...mixture of razor-sharp perceptions and extremely decorous sensibilities, she professes to prefer Gloria Steinem to Betty Friedan, "because she's so pretty, and doesn't talk too much," and dismisses the Story of O because it's a parody of French literature--besides it's pornography!" Seeing everything as a phase in some historical sequence, she dislikes de Beauvoir's existentialism, because it is always searching for conclusions and final decisions. Hardwick's style is more open-ended and experimental; a sense of intellectual vagueness pervades many of her more casual thoughts because she is constantly seeking...
...challenge to the South Carolina delegation, which they said lacked a sufficient number of women. In the caucus, McGovern had said that he "fully and unequivocally" backed the women on South Carolina. Betty Friedan complained: "We were cynically misused." Now they were outraged, and in the case of Gloria Steinem, tearful with rage. Calling the McGovern operatives "bastards," she had to be led from the floor in the middle of the abortion debate...