It was Betty Freidan herself, in "Life So Far, who spoke about her
life and career and told us what it was all like from "the inside.
With the unsparing frankness that made "The Feminine Mystique" one
of the most influential books of the century, Friedan looked back
and told us what it took, and what it cost, to change the world.
She took us on an intimate journey through her life, from her
lonely childhood to the founding of NOW and her brilliant,
contentious, and brave leadership of the Movement.
"Life So Far" chronicles the secret underground of women in
Washington in the early sixties who drafted Friedan to spearhead an
"NAACP" for women, and the daring of many who spoke out against
discrimination. Friedan recounts the political infighting and dirty
tricks that occurred within the Movement as well as the forces that
tried to destroy it and how hard she fought to keep the Movement
practical and free of extremism, including "man-hating." Friedan is
equally frank about her twenty-two-year marriage to an advertising
entrepreneur, which deteriorated into physical abuse. They later
reconciled as friends.
"Life So Far" is forthright, full of stories and
larger-than-life characters, and it is the scope of Friedan's
vision and achievements that makes her memoir so important and
compelling.
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