Friedan

1 I fancied myself a strong, principled person, a feminist who had read her Steinem and Friedan at some of the finest, most progressive liberal arts schools in the country. 

2 They were so different from each other, but I know they both felt the frustration Friedan details, and dealt with it by passing on a message of independence to younger generations.

3 The writers also praised the ideas of Malcolm X and other black intellectuals who tied the relationship between racial injustice and labor inequality — topics not adequately broached by Friedan.

4 In a tough, sharp, aggressive conversation, she threatens to call in her lawyers, the Equal Opportunity Commission, Betty Friedan and the ACLU.

5 It wasn’t as though I wanted to be Betty Friedan.

6 Friedan famously identified “the problem that has no name” — the unhappiness and lack of fulfillment that came from the relentless pressure on women to conform to a narrow and limiting feminine ideal.

7 We call Betty Friedan the mother of second wave feminism even though Sadie Alexander, who was a black lawyer from Philadelphia, made these arguments about women of color in the 1930s.

8 She is beckoned — like Eve, like the women convened at Seneca Falls decades before, like Betty Friedan and Audre Lorde decades later, like Claudia Rankine today — to “use language to mark the unmarked.”

9 First, many of the historians and intellectuals Cannadine cites represent only a small, polemical minority, eager to engage in political battles – people like Huntington, Betty Friedan or EP Thompson.

10 The episode ends on a quietly sweet note, with Steinem reaching out to Friedan and thanking her for all she's done.

11 She was, after all, a feminist who satirised the overly solemn and self-defeating aspects of feminism, such as Betty Friedan's baffling determination to start fights with Gloria Steinem.

12 "The French Chef" began airing in 1963, the same year that Betty Friedan's feminist tract "The Feminine Mystique" was released, and the underlying messages were strangely similar.

13 To Friedan's surprise, these pampered, idle suburbanites were miserable.

14 But just because Friedan face-plants when dealing with her troll doesn't mean her instinct to take the troll head on was wrong, Steinem learns.

15 Revealing in another way, and none too generous, are her portraits of feminist author Betty Friedan, playwright Lillian Hellman, and humorist Dorothy Parker — role models for Ephron, who became disillusioned after close encounters with them.

16 It’s a promising premise, but the realization mostly resembled something your supercool sophomore modern dance troupe might have dreamed up at 2 a.m. after a night of debating Betty Friedan over tequila shots.

17 She examines the role of work in the lives of African-American women — something Friedan neglected and for which she has been rightly criticized.

18 Last week, feminists celebrated the 50th anniversary of Betty Friedan’s book, which explores the ways in which traditional conceptions of motherhood and housewifery stifle and demean women and diminish society as a whole.

19 Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique" resonated with so many white women in the 1960s because it articulated their dissatisfaction with the postwar gender order.

20 And by starting the conversation about that need, by making it okay for women to want something else, Friedan helped start a revolution.

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