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...Jean Calterone Williams Judith Hennessee, Betty Friedan: Her Life . New York: Random House,1999. Daniel Horowitz, Betty Friedan and the Making of “The Feminine Mystique”: The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism . Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998. 2001...

... organization, despite historians’ tendency to overlook it. Meyerowitz likewise revises some standard assumptions of American historiography. The essays she has collected in this vol- ume correct, or at least refine, the prevailing view initiated by Betty Friedan in The Feminine Mystique...

... the 1970 Women’s Strike for Equality, meeting in Betty Friedan’s living room with Ivy Bottini, Ruthann Miller (now O’Donnell), Bella Abzug, Kate Millett, Flo Kennedy, Gloria Steinem, and others. That same year she ran for the US Senate on the SWP ticket and organized local and national marches for abortion...

... radical tradition: The Stirring of a New Left. C. Wright Mills, ”The Decline of the Left” (1959), “Culture and Politics: The Fourth Epoch” (1959), ”The New Left” (1960), ”The Cultural Apparatus” (1959), ”On Knowledge and Power” (1955), from Power, Politics and Peuple. Betty Friedan...

... Angelou, with life in the suburbs and Betty Friedan or Alix Kates Shulman, worlds that barely knew each other existed. Another is to pose a problem through which some of these complexities can be explored and clarified. Elaine Tyler May has ably pursued this possibility in her examination...

... political and intellectual orientation grew and changed. Like many of her gen- eration and political background, she was at first uneasy about some of the sexual issues raised by the women’s liberation movement; like Betty Friedan, she worried lest the movement’s provocative style and the coming-­out...

... of proposed projects (i.e., the Brotherhood Mobilization) to pamphlets, speeches, and private correspondence. On the egalitarianism of the secular left of the 1930s, see Cohen, When the Old Left Was Young, 188–277; Daniel Horowitz, Betty Friedan and the Making...

...” that Betty Friedan, in her 1964 visit to UT, said was being thwarted in young Moreover, the sexual liberalization urged by men in the new left was in step with a process that was well under- way and enjoyed support beyond the political confines of even Friedan’s liberalism.68It was less...

..." is redundant-in itself, the concept compels obedience. His perceptive critique of more recent analyses of sexuality and gender pays tribute to the insights of feminist forebears even as it reveals het- erosexuality's continued ability to avoid attention: when critics like Betty Friedan and Kate...

... women‘s rights activists such as Betty Friedan attacked ”the lavender menace.” Friedan took part in purges of lesbians in New York‘s chapter of the National Organization of Women.26 The conflicts that developed in the Front between women and men reflected the debates occurring among...

..., a history of liberalism in the 1960s, that makes no mention of Betty Friedan or the National Or- ganization of Women, the primary liberal reformist group of the women's movement. Sgt. Pepper: It Was Twenty Years Ago Today, a film with excellent potential as a teaching tool, shows two full hours...

... Library, Bryant Park. They followed a red banner held by women’s liberation icons who had fought sexism since the 1960s: Susan Brownmiller, Bella Abzug, Florynce Kennedy, Andrea Dworkin, Gloria Steinem, and Betty Friedan. With a four-­beat rhythm, marchers filled streets normally dominated...

... during her imprisonment and trial. White women also participated in the Free Angela Davis campaign, including Gloria Steinem, who served as national treasurer of Davis’s defense fund, but Davis’s case became a wedge issue in the burgeoning US women’s movement. The recounting of Betty Friedan asking...

... the intellectual continuum that links the works of Erich Fromm, Hannah Arendt, Theodor Adorno, David Riesman, Dwight Macdonald, C. Wright Mills, Richard Hofstadter, Lionel Trilling, Betty Friedan, Stanley Elkins, and, yes, even Norman Mailer. For each of them, the ”challenge was the recovery...