Betty Friedan

  • Friedan's farewell

    A report on Betty Friedan's funeral.
  • Losing our leaders

    A story on the toll of last week's obituaries.
  • 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?
  • Betty Friedan's legacy

    Hillary Clinton, Erica Jong, Camille Paglia and others remember the founder of the modern women's movement.
  • A terrible week for American women

    We lost Wendy Wasserstein, Coretta Scott King and Betty Friedan. We got Samuel Alito.
  • 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.
  • Feminism was a cult of personalities

    "Grandiose, petty, quarrelsome, deeply ridden by feelings of inferiority"
  • Carl Friedan is a victim of radical feminism

    "It's so nice to see that radical feminism still trumps rational discourse"
  • When feminists were divas

    The figures who founded modern feminism were outrageous, outspoken and sometimes out of their minds -- but they were never boring.
  • "Betty Friedan a sexpot?"

    Carl Friedan abuses the Web in an ugly breach of divorce etiquette.
  • 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.
  • Out with the old and out with the new

    Feminism of every stripe has failed. It's time for a gender equality movement.
  • 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.
  • Crashing the top

    Women at elite universities may have broken the ivory ceiling, but they're still battling old-fashioned discrimination.
  • Letters to the Editor

    Horowitz takes aim at wrong targets, and misfires. Plus: the bizarre world of advertising; do doctors always know best?
  • 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?
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Betty Friedan: Her Life

    Norah Vincent reviews 'Betty Friedan: Her Life' by Judith Hennessee.
  • Betty Friedan's secret Communist past

    Why has this feminist icon continued to cover up her years as a party activist?

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