Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2024-04-09
Books mentioned on The 1977 Women's Conference That Changed America
The 70s were the decade of the woman in the US. America finally was coming around to the understanding women and men are equals and the government sponsored a conference to advance women’s rights.
Josh Clark discussed The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Feminine Mystique
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan is a landmark 1960s feminist text that investigated the widespread unhappiness and unfulfilled potential of women trapped in domestic suburban roles.
Discussed“a lot of there was a lot of um infighting in feminism at the time there was the Old Guard kind of personified by Betty fan who wrote the Feminine Mystique”
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