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“I Wrote Feminist Propaganda For Cosmopolitan.” - Writer Sue Ellen Browder

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark

CHAPTER

The Feminine Mystique of the 1960s and 70s

When you started working for Cosmopolitan in 1970, did you immediately start writing feminist slanted pieces? I was just a secretary. The reason why I wrote my book—you've got my books subverted. It's because the women's movement and the sexual revolution were two radically different movements. Alan Grilly Brown would have logged for her sex rag to be part of theWomen's movement. Betty Friedan was a family feminist. She became a grandmother of three grandchildren.

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