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second wave feminism
December 1, 2023
Magazine
Hermione 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.
September 8, 2017
Maggie Doherty
The Courageous Radicalism of Kate Millett
The feminist intellectual died on Wednesday at 82. Her unapologetic utopianism offers lessons for all of us.
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