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Betty Friedan in The Washington Monthly

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/10/29/the-lost-mystique-of-betty-friedan/

Joan Starkey

"Betty Friedan and the Movement that Outgrew Her"

Read The New Yorker's new article about Shteir's Betty Friedan here.

Joan Starkey

"Betty Friedan and America's forgotten feminists"

Read the new Economist article here, also attached below.

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Betty Friedan is on The Millions ''Most Anticipated" list.

"Friedan‘s legacy is complicated and sometimes contradictory, and in the first biography of Friedan in more than 20 years, Shteir tries...

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EEOC Level the Paying Field

Here is a link to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission page for their campaign Level The Paying Field to commemorate the 60th...

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Chicago Tribune opinion piece by Rachel Shteir

"Betty Friedan was just a fiery radical with a bad temper. It’s convenient to believe this. But at a moment when many of the rights for...

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Kirkus Review of Magnificent Disrupter

"The tumultuous life of a tireless activist for women’s rights. A drama critic and cultural historian, Shteir offers a corrective to...

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Publishers Weekly Review of Magnificent Disrupter

"Historian Shteir (The Steal) highlights Betty Friedan’s complex legacy as a tireless and mercurial crusader for feminism in this...