Rachel Shteir

The Festival

Location: Lahn Social Hall

Betty Friedan. Magnificent Disrupter

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 anti­semitism. 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 and many oth­er women-cen­tered orga­ni­za­tions. 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.”

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