Podcasts that mention 📚 The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

Yeah, there was a lot of infighting in feminism at the time—there was the Old Guard, kind of personified by Betty Friedan, who wrote The Feminine Mystique, who was kind of opposed to the gay contingent, which she called the Lavender Menace, which she believed prevented mainstream society from accepting feminism and seeing it as credible.

The podcast hosts discuss the infighting among feminists, highlighting how Betty Friedan, author of 'The Feminine Mystique,' opposed the gay rights movement within the feminist movement. They explain the tensions between various factions of feminism during that historical period.

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