Betty Friedan : magnificent disrupter /
A new portrait of Betty Friedan, the author and activist acclaimed as the mother of second-wave feminism. The feminist writer and activist Betty Friedan (1921-2006), pathbreaking author of The Feminine Mystique, was powerful and polarizing. In this biography, the first in more than twenty years, Rac...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2023]
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| Series: | Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.5666745 |
Table of Contents:
- A prophet in Peoria
- "Split at the root"
- "My roots are in my moving"
- "It was almost as good as having a baby"
- "The problem that had no name"
- The "NAACP for women"
- "Our revolution is unique"
- Sexual politics and the women's strike for equality
- "I've been more of a Jewish mother to the movement than I have to my own children"
- "It changed my life"
- Her second stages
- "Here I am! This is me! This is how I am!"
- Life so far
- Epilogue: "Not your grandfather's patriarchy"