An excellent, 25-minute segment this morning on CBC Radio 1's The Sunday Edition (a programme I have come to love, btw), concerning Betty Friedan, who died last week. The Guardian printed a slew of reiminiscences - some critical - from the likes of Germaine Greer, Naomi Wolf, Camille Paglia, and Sheila Rowbotham. But I don't think she got as much attention in the media as she deserved. Betty, perhaps more than anyone, would likely have appreciated the irony that her passing was overshadowed by the death of another woman, Coretta Scott King - whose fame derived from her husband.
I really need to re-read The Feminine Mystique.
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