What prods our feminist foremothers into the light of reappraisal? The condition of women in the world is a changing state of affairs, except of course, depressingly, in all the ways it isn’t.

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Betty’s father owned a jewelry store, but economic prosperity was not enough to protect them from discrimination. According to former Peoria Journal Star editor Barbara Mantz Drake, who interviewed ...

Betty Friedan put her shoulder and her mind to the task of opening doors and widening that "narrow definition of 'the role of women.'"In gratitude for that fine discontent, for that refusal to conform ...

In her epoch-making The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan set the Sixties afire with a clarion call for feminist awakening. Not for nothing did Alvin Toffler enthuse that her bestselling book “pulled ...

In “The Movement,” Clara Bingham captures the years 1963-73 in the voices of the women who lived it. By Anna Holmes Lara Bazelon’s “Ambitious Like A Mother” is the latest addition to a tall pile of ...