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Author Horowitz, Daniel, 1938-

Title Betty Friedan and the making of The feminine mystique : the American left, the cold war, and modern feminism / Daniel Horowitz
Published Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 354 pages) : illustrations
Series Culture, politics, and the cold war
Culture, politics, and the Cold War.
Contents 1. Peoria, 1921-38 -- 2. Bettye Goldstein at Smith College, 1938-40: An Education in Creativity, Psychology -- and Politics -- 3. The Radicalization of Bettye Goldstein, 1940-41 -- 4. It All Comes Together, 1941-42: Anti-Fascism, Women Workers, Unions, War, and Psychology -- 5. A Momentous Interlude: Berkeley, 1942-43 -- 6. Federated Press, 1943-46: Popular Front Labor Journalist -- 7. UE News, 1946-52: Workers, Women, and McCarthyism -- 8. The Personal Is Political, 1947-63 -- 9. Free-lance Writer, 1952-63 -- 10. The Development of The Feminine Mystique, 1957-63 -- 11. 1963 to the Present
Summary "Drawing on an impressive body of new research - including Friedan's own papers - Horowitz traces the development of Friedan's feminist outlook from her childhood in Peoria, Illinois, through her wartime years at Smith College and Berkeley, to her decade-long career as a writer for two of the period's most radical labor journals, the Federated Press and the United Electrical Workers' UE News. He further shows that even after she married and began to raise a family, Friedan continued during the 1950s to write and work on behalf of a wide range of progressive social causes." "By resituating Friedan within a broader cultural context, and by offering a fresh reading of The Feminine Mystique against that background, Horowitz not only overturns conventional ideas about "second-wave" feminism but also reveals long submerged links to its past."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Friedan, Betty.
SUBJECT Friedan, Betty fast
Friedan, Betty, (1921- ...) ram
Subject Feminists -- United States -- Biography
Feminism -- United States
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Feminism
Feminists
Politics and government
Gender & Ethnic Studies.
Social Sciences.
Gender Studies & Sexuality.
Féministes -- États-Unis -- Biographies.
Féminisme -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140455
Subject United States
États-Unis -- Politique et gouvernement -- 20e siècle.
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585142106
9780585142104