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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shteir, Rachel, 1964- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2023].
Series:Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. A prophet in Peoria
  • 2. "Split at the root"
  • 3. "My roots are in my moving"
  • 4. "It was almost as good as having a baby"
  • 5. "The problem that had no name"
  • 6. The "NAACP for women"
  • 7. "Our revolution is unique"
  • 8. Sexual politics and the women's strike for equality
  • 9. "I've been more of a Jewish mother to the movement than I have to my own children"
  • 10. "It changed my life"
  • 11. Her second stages
  • 12. "Here I am! This is me! This is how I am!"
  • 13. Life so far
  • Epilogue: "Not your grandfather's patriarchy."