""It Changed My Life." "That's what Betty Friedan heard over and
over from women throughout the United States, after the publication
of her radical best-seller, "The Feminine Mystique," sparked the
beginning of contemporary feminism. The first stirring and
uncertain years of the women's movement helped many women put a
name to the sense of invisibility, powerlessness, and depression
that Friedan famously called "the problem that has no name."
First published in 1976, ""It Changed My Life"" is a
compellingly readable collection of reports from the front, back in
the days less than a generation ago when women were routinely shut
out of the professions and higher education, underpaid,
condescended to, and harassed without consequences to the
harassers. The book describes the political campaigns for equal pay
and job opportunities, for the outlawing of sex discrimination, for
the Equal Rights Amendment, and for legalized abortion, the
creation of National Organization for Women, the National Abortion
Rights Action League, and the National Women's Political Caucus,
and analyzes the antifeminist backlashes. Encounters with Simone de
Beauvoir and Indira Gandhi are juxtaposed with moving and vivid
personal struggles of many ordinary women. Among those women was
Friedan herself, who frankly recorded her astonishment,
gratification, and anger as the movement she helped create grew
beyond all her hopes, and then raced beyond her control into a
sexual politics she found disturbing.
A classic of modern feminism, ""It Changed My Life"" brings
back years of struggle for those who were there, and recreates the
past for the readers of today who were not yet born during these
struggles forthe opportunities and respect to which women can now
feel entitled. In changing women's lives, the women's movement has
changed everything.
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