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[labellementeuse]

Betty Friedan died yesterday. She wrote The Feminine Mystique in 1963, a book which wrote about the fantasy that women achieved perfect fulfilment through life as a housewife, an idea prevalent then (and still not dead). It's also a book that changed women's lives and the attitude to what a woman's life could be throughout the world.

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[miriamus.livejournal.com]

Fark.com discussion (http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1894649) Interesting

[miriamus.livejournal.com]

(well interesting in a geez, some people are belligerent, way...the women with no sense of humour as well as the anti-feminists.....)

[nic-the-hat.livejournal.com]

It made me sad...she sounds like a wonderful woman. I'm still trying to find "The feminine Mystique" and "The Female Eunuch" but have not had any luck so far :(

Feminism is still needed in this world, sadly.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

They shouldn't be hard to find! The library will have them both- the school library might even have them!

She wasn't flawless, of course. She's credited with inventing the term "Lavender Menace" (used to describe lesbians who "hijacked" the cause of feminism as she saw it) and admitted later in life that she was afraid of homosexuality. But at the same time the things she did, and she worked so hard for feminism. I admired her.