ISBN:
9780300220025
Language:
English
Pages:
366 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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22 cm
Series Statement:
Jewish lives
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Shteir, Rachel Betty Friedan
DDC:
305.42
Keywords:
Friedan, Betty
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Friedan, Betty
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Feminists / United States / Biography
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Women social reformers / United States / Biography
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Jewish women / United States / Biography
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Biography
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Biographies
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Biografie
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Friedan, Betty 1921-2006
Abstract:
A new portrait of Betty Friedan, the author and activist acclaimed as the mother of second-wave feminism. The feminist writer and activist Betty Friedan (1921-2006), pathbreaking author of The Feminine Mystique, was powerful and polarizing. In this biography, the first in more than twenty years, Rachel Shteir draws on Friedan's papers and on interviews with family, colleagues, and friends to create a nuanced portrait
Description / Table of Contents:
1. A prophet in Peoria -- 2. "Split at the root" -- 3. "My roots are in my moving" -- 4. "It was almost as good as having a baby" -- 5. "The problem that had no name" -- 6. The "NAACP for women" -- 7. "Our revolution is unique" -- 8. Sexual politics and the women's strike for equality -- 9. "I've been more of a Jewish mother to the movement than I have to my own children" -- 10. "It changed my life" -- 11. Her second stages -- 12. "Here I am! This is me! This is how I am!" -- 13. Life so far -- Epilogue: "Not your grandfather's patriarchy
