A biography of the author of "The Feminine Mystique" who helped found the National Organization for Women in 1966.
Released for the first time in paperback, this landmark social and political volume on feminism is credited with being responsible for raising awareness, liberating both sexes, and triggering major advances in the feminist movement.
When Betty Friedan produced The Feminine Mystiquein 1963, she could not have realized how the discovery and debate of her contemporaries' general malaise would shake up society.
She convinced the Secretary General of the United Nations to declare 1975 the International Year of the Woman. In this volume, Friedan brings to extraordinary life her bold and contentious leadership in the movement.
On the way depictions of the Rosenbergs were highly gendered , see Virginia Carmichael , Framing History : The Rosenberg Story and the Cold War ( Minneapolis , 1993 ) , 103. On the responses of some Jews to the case , see Deborah D.
Representative Lynn Martin , who took Anderson's Congressional seat in Illinois , when asked how she rated women's issues on her agenda , answered , " Zip . ... There isn't any politician , male or female , who likes these issues ...
First published in 1976, "It Changed My Life" is a collection of reports from the front, back in the days less than a generation ago when women were routinely shut out of the professions and higher education, underpaid, condescended to, and ...
In showing her political and philosophical development, they reveal her to be one of the twentieth century's most significant thinkers. Book jacket. Thirty-six years of interviews with the "Mother of Modern Feminism."
Argues for a move away from single-issue activism to an economic restructuring to benefit all groups
He was the head of the National Institute on Aging and a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for his book , Why Survive ?, which was an exposé of the terrible treatment older people in America often received . Dr. Butler had identified two ...
This 50th–anniversary edition features an afterword by best-selling author Anna Quindlen as well as a new introduction by Gail Collins.