Betty Friedan : magnificent disrupter / Rachel Shteir.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shteir, Rachel, 1964- author.

Series:

Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)

Jewish lives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Friedan, Betty.

Feminists--United States--Biography.

Feminists.

Women social reformers--United States--Biography.

Women social reformers.

Jewish women--United States--Biography.

Jewish women.

Genre:

Biography.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

366 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2023]

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.

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"

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-335) and index.

ISBN:

9780300220025

0300220022

OCLC:

1375538429