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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Choice Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Shteir, Rachel, 1964-     Subjects     Friedan, Betty.     Feminists -- United States -- Biography.     Women social reformers -- United States -- Biography.     Social reformers -- United States -- Biography.     Jewish women -- United States -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Shteir, Rachel, 1964-       by title:      Betty Friedan : magn...       by call number:      305.42092 F899s     Search the Web     Shteir, Rachel, 1964-     Friedan, Betty.     Feminists -- United States -- Biography.     Women social reformers -- United States -- Biography.     Social reformers -- United States -- Biography.     Jewish women -- United States -- Biography.       MARC Display

Betty Friedan : magnificent disrupter / Rachel Shteir. by Shteir, Rachel, 1964- Yale University Press, 2023. Call #: 305.42092 F899s Subjects Friedan, Betty.   Feminists -- United States -- Biography.   Women social reformers -- United States -- Biography.   Social reformers -- United States -- Biography.   Jewish women -- United States -- Biography. Series Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.) ISBN:  9780300220025 (hc) Description:  x, 366 p. : port. ; 22 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-335) and index. Summary:  "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. Friedan, born Bettye Naomi Goldstein, chafed at society’s restrictions from a young age. As a journalist she covered racism, sexism, labor, class inequality, and anti-Semitism. As a wife and mother, she struggled to balance her work and homemaking. Her malaise as a housewife and her research into the feelings of other women resulted in The Feminine Mystique (1963), which made her a celebrity. Using her influence, Friedan cofounded the National Organization for Women, the National Women’s Political Caucus, and the National Association to Repeal Abortion Laws. She fought for the Equal Rights Amendment, universal childcare, and workplace protections for mothers, but she disagreed with the women’s liberation movement over “sexual politics.” Her volatility and public conflicts fractured key relationships. Shteir considers how Friedan’s Judaism was essential to her feminism, presenting a new Friedan for a new era."--Publisher. Genre:  Biographies. Holds:  2   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Captain William Spry Public Library Adult Biography 305.42092 F899s Adult books Item being held Add Copy to MyList

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