In Bed With The Right: Midge Decter with Matt Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell
The Feminist Present
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Betty Friedan's Defense of the Suburbs
Sally Kohn: Some of her comments are almost like a Betty Friedan parody. She says it's striking how often she would reference ordinary people and how kind of distasteful and wrongheaded she found new class. In the memoir, John Padorets writes that he once asked her, why did you marry him? And she says, because he made me feel like shit.Kohn: To have her expressing exactly the anxieties of the sort of early 60s second wave feminism is remarkable.
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