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Betty Friedan
December 1, 2023
MagazineHermione Hoby
What Betty Friedan Knew
Judge the author of the “Feminine Mystique” not by the gains she made, but by her experience.
November 9, 2017
Rachel Shteir
The Fight Takes Feminism’s Conflicts Seriously
Strife within the feminist movement was used to discredit it. But now a new play is taking a harder look at the Second Wave.
February 8, 2016
Jeet Heer
Accepting that women can be drafted into the military has been a silent revolution.
February 4, 2016
Mikaela Lefrak
Betty Friedan’s forgotten defense of men.
February 4, 2014
Betty Friedan
Betty Friedan Reflects On 1992, The Year Of The Woman
March 10, 2013
Judith Shulevitz
The Corporate Mystique
Sheryl Sandberg and the folly of Davos-style feminism
February 26, 2013
Michael Kazin
Sheryl Sandberg is No Betty Friedan
What a new movement doesn't get about the origins of feminism
February 28, 2012
Michael Kazin
Why Don’t Liberals Write Big Books Anymore?
July 15, 2010
John McWhorter
But Is Jesse Jackson *Interesting*?
October 8, 2008
Alan Wolfe
Gonzo Sociology
July 4, 2005
Ruth Franklin
The Missing Joy
July 4, 2005
Ruth Franklin
The Missing Joy
January 15, 2001
Christine Stansell
Girlie, Interrupted
December 4, 1995
John B. Judis
The Contract with K Street

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