Betty Friedan

  • Friedan's farewell

    A report on Betty Friedan's funeral.
    By Rebecca Traister February 9, 2006

  • Losing our leaders

    A story on the toll of last week's obituaries.
    By Rebecca Traister February 9, 2006

  • Feminism after Friedan

    More than 40 years ago, she launched a movement by denouncing stifling, stay-at-home motherhood. Today, are women who choose to stay home betraying feminism?
    By Joan Walsh February 6, 2006

  • Betty Friedan's legacy

    Hillary Clinton, Erica Jong, Camille Paglia and others remember the founder of the modern women's movement.
    Compiled by Sarah Goldstein February 6, 2006

  • A terrible week for American women

    We lost Wendy Wasserstein, Coretta Scott King and Betty Friedan. We got Samuel Alito.
    By Rebecca Traister February 6, 2006

  • Crying wolf

    Ashcroft is a Confederate! Bush will outlaw abortion! It's easy to see why the public is tuning out the Democratic Party's tiresome hysteria.
    By Camille Paglia February 7, 2001

  • Feminism was a cult of personalities

    "Grandiose, petty, quarrelsome, deeply ridden by feelings of inferiority"
    By June 14, 2000

  • Carl Friedan is a victim of radical feminism

    "It's so nice to see that radical feminism still trumps rational discourse"
    By June 9, 2000

  • When feminists were divas

    The figures who founded modern feminism were outrageous, outspoken and sometimes out of their minds -- but they were never boring.
    By Laura Miller June 9, 2000

  • "Betty Friedan a sexpot?"

    Carl Friedan abuses the Web in an ugly breach of divorce etiquette.
    By Lee Quarnstrom June 8, 2000

  • Home labor

    Stay-at-home moms chase pocket money and "a life" through a revived home-party selling industry. The overhead is low -- and so are their earnings.
    By Nora Macaluso March 2, 2000

  • Out with the old and out with the new

    Feminism of every stripe has failed. It's time for a gender equality movement.
    By Cathy Young January 26, 2000

  • Most obnoxious author award may be revived

    Calvin Trillin urges a comeback for the Golden Dartboard Award, once bestowed by book-tour escorts on jerky writers.
    By Craig Offman October 27, 1999

  • Crashing the top

    Women at elite universities may have broken the ivory ceiling, but they're still battling old-fashioned discrimination.
    By Ann Douglas October 11, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    Horowitz takes aim at wrong targets, and misfires. Plus: the bizarre world of advertising; do doctors always know best?
    Letters to the Editor October 4, 1999

  • The myth weavers

    Three leading leftist figures have been exposed this year as having lied about their backgrounds. Has the failure of their ideology forced them to fictionalize?
    By David Horowitz September 27, 1999

  • Why Gore would censor "South Park"

    In the name of protecting kids, watch for the politically correct vice president and his friends to try to shut down the trash-talking, moon-faced midgets.
    By David Horowitz July 19, 1999

  • Kate Millett, the ambivalent feminist

    The author of the 1970 bestseller "Sexual Politics" may have been the women's movement's most unlikely heroine, or maybe not.
    By Leslie Crawford June 5, 1999

  • Betty Friedan: Her Life

    Norah Vincent reviews 'Betty Friedan: Her Life' by Judith Hennessee.
    By Norah Vincent March 29, 1999

  • Betty Friedan's secret Communist past

    Why has this feminist icon continued to cover up her years as a party activist?
    By David Horowitz January 18, 1999
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