Format:
366 Seiten :
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Illustrationen ;
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22 cm.
ISBN:
978-0-300-22002-5
Series Statement:
Jewish lives
Content:
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
Note:
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
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Shteir, Rachel Betty Friedan New Haven : Yale University Press,c2023 ISBN 978-0-300-27472-1
Language:
English
Keywords:
1921-2006 Friedan, Betty
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Biografie
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Biography
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Biographies