There ought to be room in the world for women like that, though there don't seem to be many included in the ranks of feminism anymore. Though a classic piece of Friedan bravado, the protest was a bit of a jaw-dropper; a self-described "ham," Friedan is notorious for being one of feminism's biggest microphone hogs. America’Gloria Steinem & Betty Friedan’s Friendship Was As Messy As It Looks On ‘Mrs. Pat Buckley sprang from the audience at a Ti-Grace Atkinson lecture and belted the speaker for bad-mouthing the Catholic Church. Friedan's populist instincts and vision were mostly sound, but she had a tragic, Lear-like inability to handle her own power, so she lost much of it. Save this story for later. (Her husband, incensed by the new memoir, Likewise, Freidan is honest about her worries that her fame and success hampered her marriage and made it hard for her to form another lasting romantic relationship. Laura Miller is the author of "The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia. Ladies, if you've got a credit card or a mortgage in your own name, you almost certainly have feminism to thank for it. Several state ratified the amendment quickly. If Friedan was the pragmatist, Gloria Steinem was an ideologue, a coiner of such slogans as "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle" -- the kind of glib "female chauvinism" that made Friedan apoplectic. (Sabrina Lantos / FX) The tension between Friedan and other feminist leaders, especially Steinem, was real — and maybe worse than “Mrs. Take this instructive rally over Steinem’s “superstar” status within the movement, which appeared in a 1972 issue of the feminist magazine On this matter, Steinem, it seems, was more correct. Gloria was much more image-conscious." She got shamefully involved in an attempt by some of the movement's early radicals to insinuate that Steinem was a CIA agent. "), Steinem survived a grim youth caring alone for her mad mother in a rat-infested hovel in Toledo, to become one of Manhattan's "Beautiful People," hobnobbing with literary, intellectual and sports celebrities. Radical groups formed and in a few months began fissioning into factions that savagely denounced each other.

While some battering relationships are simple tyrannies, the reality is that others, like the Freidans' marriage, are more complex dances in which each party willfully torments the other. The more conventional feminist position would be to deny those fears, or to toss off the old "fish without a bicycle" line, or to castigate men for their failure of nerve -- all of which tend to make similar women feel guilty for being weak enough to suffer from such anxieties to begin with. SALON ® is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark of Salon.com, LLC. As Steinem’s biographer Carolyn Heilburn puts it, Friedan considered Steinem “a late arrival on the scene,” reaching her feminist consciousness in 1969, six years after Friedan had published her pivotal book Friedan, like Steinem, started her career as a journalist, and in another active slight, was vociferous about her decision to publish in mainstream women’s magazines like In fact, Friedan accused Steinem — and Abzug — of “female chauvinism” in the 1972 pages of In one particularly distracting proxy battle, which has yet to feature on The truth behind Steinem’s CIA connections has so far turned out to be less salacious and certainly less clandestine: She discussed “work[ing] closely” with the CIA to organize youth festivals with One aspect of the rivalry it would be impossible for That the women’s liberation movement’s most famous rivalry could so often skew personal doesn’t mean its consequences weren’t gravely political. Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Bella Abzug, In recent years, some feminists, like Friedan, have written accounts of their experiences intending to counteract other writers' less than flattering versions of the same events. All the way back in the early 1970s Nora Ephron was making light of Friedan in Esquire for despising Gloria Steinem, aping a jealous inner monologue: “It’s her baby, damn it. I didn't think of Gloria in the same league. It's also a cruel betrayal because the conundrum of how women can reconcile the tremendous changes in their social role with their perfectly human desires for love and family is perhaps feminism's biggest challenge. Friedan Gloria Steinem & Betty Friedan’s Friendship Was As Messy As It Looks On ‘Mrs. What happened afterwards -- feminism's descent into the sinkholes of essentialism (the notion that women are inherently morally superior to men), victimology and doctrinaire self-righteousness -- has its roots, actual and symbolic, in the personalities and feuds of the '60s and '70s.


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