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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.
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Histoire, Quelle, Frauenbewegung, Feminists, Biography, Féminisme, Feminism, History, Friedan, betty, 1921-2006People
Betty Friedan, Betty Friedan (b. 1921)Places
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It changed my life: writings on the women's movement
1998, Harvard University Press
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It changed my life: writings on the women's movement : with a new introduction
1985, W.W. Norton
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0393302431 9780393302431
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It Changed My Life: Writings on the Women's Movement
March 1978, Random House, Inc.
in English
0394463986 9780394463988
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It changed my life: writings on the women's movement
1977, Dell Pub. Co.
in English
0440139368 9780440139362
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It changed my life: writings on the women's movement
1976, Random House
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