BETTY FRIEDAN AND THE MAKING OF THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE: THE AMERICAN LEFT, THE COLD WAR, AND MODERN FEMINISM.(Review)
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, June, 1999
BETTY FRIEDAN AND THE MAKING OF THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE: THE AMERICAN LEFT, THE COLD WAR, AND MODERN FEMINISM. By DANIEL HOROWITZ. University of Massachusetts Press. 355 pp. $29.95.
First it was an authorized biography. Then Horowitz started digging up some things that Friedan didn't want unearthed. So even though Horowitz was basically sympathetic to Friedan's feminist position, his authorization was revoked--but the book still came out. The dirty little secret? Betty Friedan wasn't an unhappy housewife after all. It's not the unhappy part that's wrong. It's the housewife part. Friedan was anything but an oppressed little woman. Her early adult years were spent at exclusive Smith College, during and after which she worked as a journalist and activist for the...
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