Gloria Steinem
Caroline Lazo
Recounts the life of the feminist leader, her impact on the women's movement, and the founding of Ms. magazine and the Ms. Foundation.
Read Time: ~6.5 hr
It changed my life
by Betty Friedan (1976)
About this book
First published in 1976, "It Changed My Life" is a 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 NOW, NARAL, and the National Women's Political Caucus, and analyzes the antifaminist 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.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CoreIt changed my life Lead Character
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