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Tells the stories of Betty Friedan, Kate Millett, Germaine Greer, and Gloria Steinem, looks at the origin of the National Organization for Women, and describes the major feminist issues
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In this "herstory," New York journalist Cohen documents the development of opposing philosophies along with political events that continue to shape the contemporary struggle for women's equality. The movement's high-profile leadership has endured 25 tumultuous years of individual triumphs and public traumas, often sensationalized in the media, butsympathetically reported here. Those who generated the rhetoric of liberation are an eclectic group: predominately magazine writers but also activists, educators, politicians and clubwomen. Reacting to inequities in their professional and personal lives, they effectively protested the violation of rights suffered by all women. From Betty Friedan's articulation of The Feminine Mystique, through Gloria Steinem's launch of Ms. magazine, internal schisms festered, notes Cohen, weakening the unity of the sisterhood's brightest lights and, ultimately, undermining passage of the ERA. BOMC featured alternate.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Cohen has revisited the women's movement a la People magazine, dishing out the dirt on Betty, Gloria, Germaine, and Kate, among others, complete with gossip supplied by aliented relatives and neighbors long out of touch. Wife abuse, divorce, suicide, commitments to mental institutionsthe dark secrets of the stars of feminism are served with a garnish of psychobabble. This collection of disconnected bios ends with a recap of "where they are now." Not recommended. BOMC featured alternate. Cynthia Harrison, American Historical Assn., Washington, D.C.
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