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You can’t talk about the women’s movement without talking about Betty Friedan
The second woman's revolution was powerfully led by Smith alumnae, Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem. They fought . . . to expand the role of women in our society, to give us full access to the rooms of power where decisions are made.
For the necessary and challenging questions about who should be in the kitchen, posed so sharply by Betty Friedan in The Feminine Mystique , ultimately got answered by the food industry: No one! Let us do it all !More quotes »
Newsday's coverage
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Shriver: Margaret Thatcher's muscular feminism
Feminism has long been associated with talk: combative rhetoric about equal rights, academic analysis of whether men and women are the same or whether women are actually better, that moldy debate over whether it's possible for women to "have it all," bot Read more »
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Letters: Friedan's message: good and bad
Columnist Kathleen Parker 's understanding of Betty Friedan and the women's movement of 50 years ago is shallow at best [" 'Feminine Mystique': 50 and not so fabulous," Opinion, Feb. 14]. I'm writing to disabuse her of some erroneous notions about who Fr Read more »
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Parker: 'The Feminine Mystique' is 50 and not so fabulous
Now is the time for all good women to pay homage to Betty Friedan , who 50 years ago wrote the game-changing manifesto "The Feminine Mystique." With that book, Friedan helped propel a revolution led by, of all people, unhappy housewives.One feels silly e Read more »
Around the web
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How Michael Pollan Romanticizes Dinner
"Is Michael Pollan a sexist pig?" wonders the title of a recent Salon piece by Emily Matchar, which is an excerpt of her just-released book, Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity. The Salon headline turns out to be mainly a lunge fo from Mother Jones Read more »
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In our opinion: Family life, not 'whole life,' brings women happiness
It's been 50 years since Betty Friedan released "The Feminine Mystique" and set out to address what she identified as "widespread unhappiness" among women. Her solution: dismantle the "feminine mystique" — the idea that women were fulfilled by devoting t from Deseret News Read more »
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Anti Mark Sanford Ad: 'He Skipped Town to Be With His Mistress on Father's Day' (Video)
Betty Friedan is best known for her feminist classic, The Feminine Mystique. The book played a tremendous role in sparking second wave fem... Check out the silhouettes across the top of Feministing . Omigod! They have breasts! Ann Althouse is appalled . from Tennessee Guerilla Women Read more »
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5 Year Old Shoots (Kills) 2 Year Old With His Own Gun!
Betty Friedan is best known for her feminist classic, The Feminine Mystique. The book played a tremendous role in sparking second wave fem... Idiot Tennessee State Senator Stacey Campfield embarrasses Tennessee, and mortifies the nation, on the Piers Ant from Tennessee Guerilla Women Read more »
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Femivores vs. Feminists: Let the Debate Begin
Responsible food citizen or traitor to the cause? You decide.Photo: iStockphoto What would Betty Friedan think of the plethora of food bloggers and handcrafted jam makers out there? In the new book, Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesti from Grub Street SF Read more »
