Voice for women's rights, advocate of human rights.
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.
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.
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.
Betty Friedan's book The Feminine Mystique is possibly the best-selling of all the titles analysed in the Macat library, and arguably one of the most important.
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 ...
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 ...
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."
It will focus mainly on her student life and her private life. The second part will deal with her life, as she calls it, “new” life, after she published the book.
This 50th–anniversary edition features an afterword by best-selling author Anna Quindlen as well as a new introduction by Gail Collins.