Life So Far (Magill’s Literary Annual 2001)
At a glance:
- Author: Betty Friedan
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Memoirs and women’s issues
- Time of Work: Contemporary
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Feminism, Women’s issues, Activism
In response to two unauthorized biographies, Betty Friedan: Her Life (1999), by Judith Hennessee, and Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique: The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism (1998), by Daniel Horowitz, which she calls “false, mistaken, sensational and trivializing,” Betty Friedan decided to record her own version of her life story. The result, Life So Far, is opinionated, chatty, frank, profound, and sometimes infuriating, but always entertaining. She says that she “never set out to start a women’s revolution . . . it just...
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