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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New Haven, Connecticut :
Yale University Press,
[2023].
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| 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."