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: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven, Connecticut :
Yale University Press,
[2023].
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| Series: | Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)
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| Summary: | 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, Rachel Shteir draws on Friedan's papers and on interviews with family, colleagues and friends to create a nuanced portrait. |
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| Physical Description: | 366 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780300220025 0300220022 |