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Betty Friedan: The Personal Is Political (Longman American Biography Series)
Susan Oliver

ISBN-10: 0321393880
ISBN-13: 9780321393883

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2008
Format: Paper; 208 pp
Published: 10/16/2007

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Scholar, journalist, activist, and noted author, Betty Friedan led a public campaign for equality in American society that stretched from 1950’s suburbia to the close of the 20th century.

 

Friedan’s personal experiences motivated her to rally against anti-Semitism at Smith College, reveal wage discrimination as a reporter for labor unions, define domestic dissatisfaction in The Feminine Mystique, and organize women for equality with the founding of the National Organization for Women.  That public persona also affected her private life in marriage, motherhood, and eventual divorce.  This newest addition to Longman’s Library of American Biography Series follows Friedan through nearly 50 years of championing equality, mapping the successes and shortfalls of her agenda.

 

The titles in the Library of American Biography Series make ideal supplements for American History Survey courses or other courses in American history where figures in history are explored. Paperback, brief, and inexpensive, each interpretative biography in this series focuses on a figure whose actions and ideas significantly influenced the course of American history and national life. At the same time, each biography relates the life of its subject to the broader themes and developments of the times.

  • Influences on Friedan’s Life.  The author chronicles Friedan’s family life in Peoria, Illinois, and her intellectual influences as a writer and psychology student.
  • Explores the complex issues of Second Wave Feminism in a clear, direct narrative that is accessible and meaningful to undergraduate students.
  • Beyond the Mystique.  Friedan’s contributions numbered many more than her most well-known work, The Feminine Mystique.  The author follows Friedan’s efforts for women’s equality internationally, for the Equal Rights Amendment in the late 70s, her research on society and aging in the 1980s, and her investigation on work and public policy in the 90s.
  • A preface by Series Editor Mark Carnes that illustrates the importance of this new biography.
  • Study and Discussion Questions at the end of the book that help students check their reading and comprehension. These questions can also be used to facilitate discussions in the classroom or student study groups.

Editor’s Preface

Author’s Preface

 

1.      Through the Glass Darkly

2.      Expanding the Life of the Mind

3.      Working for the Revolution

4.      Homeward Bound

5.      Defrocking the Myth

6.      Reluctant Heroines

7.      The Unfinished Revolution

8.      Debating Feminism

9.      New Frontiers for Feminism

 

Study and Discussion Questions

A Note on the Sources

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