Comfortably dumb Nov 10, 2009
Gail Collins even went so far as to diagnose Jon as the spouse who was suffering from the feminine problem that has no name that Betty Friedan wrote about in 1963. Kate was the star while Jon, the laid-off I.T. guy, described himself as Mr. Mom, staying home with the kids while his wife went back out on book tour. (Salon)
er Feminism"> Nov 10, 2009
In Newsmax's special report, writer S.E. Cupp says that the days of bra-burning, feminist militancy from acolytes of Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem who defined womanhood as simply anti-male, are gone. Today, women as different as Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton can claim the feminist mantle. (Newsmax)
Alice Rossi, 87, noted sociologist, leading feminist Nov 10, 2009
In 1966, she joined with Betty Friedan and a small group of women leaders to form NOW, which became the leading political organization for women s rights. About the same time, she became one of the most resolute voices for liberalizing abortion laws. (Boston Globe)
Ariel Levy: Why is feminism still so divisive? Nov 9, 2009
Post, Esther Peterson, Restless (1997), Memories, Cindy McCain, Billie Jean King, Conservatives, Betty Friedan, Miss America Pageant, Republican Party, Susan Brownmiller, NOW (National Organization for Women), Bob McDonnell, Gloria Steinem, Social Movements, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Shriver Report, Identity Politics, Traditional Family, Comprehensive Child Development Act, Walter Mondale, (Pres. Richard Nixon" /> Books Lift and Separate Why is feminism still so divisive? by 00004000 November... (New Yorker)
Reliving the world of 'Ally McBeal' Oct 8, 2009
Flockhart appeared on the cover of Time magazine -- next to Susan B. Anthony, Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem -- with the headline "Is Feminism Dead?" The show also reignited interest in R&B veteran Barry White, with Cage, known as "the Biscuit," lip-synching his music. Shepard, best known for the "McBeal" theme song "Searchin' My Soul," credits the show with launching her musical career. (CNN)
Novelist Leonard To Receive PEN USA Award Oct 2, 2009
Past recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award include Ray Bradbury, Woody Allen, Betty Friedan and Gore Vidal. PEN USA is a Los Angeles-based professional writers organization. (CBS News -- Entertainment)
What's happening to women's happiness? Sep 21, 2009
Betty Friedan had published The Feminine Mystique a few years earlier, and had founded the National Organization for Women in 1966. And Gloria Steinem had just published the essay in New York Magazine that clearly separated the modern Women's Movement from other oppressed groups, "After Bl 000024A1 ack Power: Women's Liberation," in which she called for meaningful work, equal pay, and the goal for all women to be freed from the role of only "servicing men and their children.". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Why Vogue Continues to Disappoint Me Sep 12, 2009
In many ways the feminine ideal Vogue exalts today is even narrower than the confining one Betty Friedan criticized womens magazines for promoting in the early 60s, an image of the fulfilled woman as young and frivolous, almost childlike. In the magazine image women do no work except housework and work to keep their bodies beautiful and to get and keep a man. (Slate)
‘Mad Men’ culture survived the ’60s Aug 31, 2009
We want them to read Betty Friedan and Germaine Greer, get mad, demand equal pay, wear more comfortable underwear, and stop reflexively deferring to men. We want them to wake up and smell the coffee and tell the men to make their own coffee. (Boston Globe)
Thank You, Sarah Palin Jul 23, 2009
Sarah Palins feminine appearance, charm, and rhetoric transformed the dowdy image of female leadership a la Betty Friedan, Bella Abzug, Madeline Albright, or Janet Reno. With her casual and humorous approach to public speaking and her down-home expressions, she made harsh feminist diatribes seem empty, meaningless, out-of-touch and out-of-date. (Townhall.com)
Shame Is Deader Than Dead Jun 27, 2009
"To work, to parent, to housekeep, to be the ones who schedule 'date night,' only to be reprimanded in the home by male kitchen b------, and then, in the bedroom, to be ignored -- it's a bum deal." How far we have come, sisters, from "The Feminine Mystique," when Betty Friedan cried under the lash of domesticity. Today's woman is apparently miserable because her husband is too much of a culinary perfectionist and too inadequate a lover. (Townhall.com)
In Rakoff’s post-9/11 world, Generation Y grapples with aging Jun 27, 2009
These are absurdly well-educated people, who like to quote Sylvia Plath, Soren Kierkegaard, and Betty Friedan to each other during conversations; but they discover that such book learning hardly endows them with the kind of practical knowledge required to live a successful life in the real world. Emily, perhaps the novel s most memorably three-dimensional character, is an actress with dreams of Broadway stardom. (Boston Globe)
Sweetness and Spite Jun 25, 2009
For some peevish spirits notably Comrade Betty Friedan, who treated her to special invective (a badge of honor in itself) McGinley just was not dismal enough. Domesticity, that concentration camp of Ugly Betty s feverish imaginings, seemed to McGinley something like heaven. (The American Conservative)
LETTER: Denying their rights won't get rid of gays Jun 5, 2009
Then, when the sixty's came around, Gloria, Steinem, Betty Friedan, and Fannie Lou Hamer came along to put the notion in women's heads that they didn't need men and marriage anymore since they had economic freedom. Go ahead and blame the Christians for divorce and their divorce rate. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
When Women Blew Up American Poetry Jun 3, 2009
Betty Friedan had published in three years earlier, just eight days after Plaths suicide. The was in its fledgling days. (Slate)
Room of Her Own May 25, 2009
Modern feminist lore dates its first chapter from 1963, when Betty Friedan found the original desperate housewives vacuuming their spotless ranch houses in high heels, natch and heard them asking, Is this all. Hate Friedan if it suits anyone who told Phyllis Schlafly, I d like to burn you at the stake, would have earned the Right s ire, absent the rest of her radical cargo. (The American Conservative)
Parents Who Talk Too Much May 14, 2009
The audience for this anti-sentimental portraiture, the sort midwifed by Betty Friedan and Erma Bombeck, was other mothers: Angels in the House fed up with mythologized motherhood and ready to bond over their inner bitches. The most successful mothers-turned-memoirists have stuck with the consciousness-raising formula ever since: Evoke the emotionally incorrect muck and panic of life with clamoring kids and (here's an apt verb) milk the subversive humor for what it's worthwhich is ideally to... (Slate)
Lame Moms Who Hide Behind Their Kids' Pictures on Facebook May 14, 2009
If Betty Friedan were to review the Facebook habits of the over-30 set, she would turn over in her grave ... Who will mourn these vanished ladies and when will Betty Friedan rest in peace ... Betty Friedan didn't speak to me. (Slate)
Helen Gurley Brown's Sexy Mistake May 13, 2009
Scanlon says at the outset that she believes Brown has been one of the major forces in the postwar women's movement, right up there with Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem. It's not the world's easiest argument to makeshe's talking about someone who called Playboy a "terrific" magazine; described her own book as "a girlish, gurgling, non-literary kind of thing"; and advised any woman over 40 that she better get good at "sucking, handling and, most of all, admiring" her man's penis because from... (Slate)
"ABIGAIL AND JOHN" Apr 19, 2009
But the home front was a lot more challenging than in the days of Betty Friedan. Early in his marriage, while riding the circuit as a young lawyer, John asked Abigail to "rouse your whole Attention to the Family, the stock, the Farm, the Dairy ... Keep the [farm]Hands attentive to their Business and [let] the most prudent Measures of every kind be adopted and pursued.". (New York Post -- Opinions)
Projects Focusing on Historical Her... Mar 21, 2009
Projects Focusing on Historical Heroes: Creating an Assignment that Provides Students with Role Models. Projects Focusing on Historical Heroes. (Suite101.com)
Anne Summers Feb 8, 2009
The Sydney Morning Herald: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Australia's leading newspaper. Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
