Rachel Shteir is the author of Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disrupter and three other books. She teaches at the Theatre School at DePaul University.
Stories by This Author
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What does the academy have against the mother of second-wave feminism?
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Vivian Gornick shows how the movement enriched both her highs and her lows.
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The absurdist’s letters suggest a passionate engagement with his work and a workmanlike engagement with his passions.
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Belle Knox represents a generation of angry young women who have come of age in a pornified, financially devastated century.
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The type of artisanal instructions provided in a conservatory can never be replicated online.
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New works on women lack the fire of Betty Friedan. They don’t rage, they fizzle.
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Its worth is as hard to define as its essence. But that hasn’t stopped scholars from trying.
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The trouble started last fall, when my book Striptease: The Untold History of the Girlie Show was published by Oxford University Press. It was -- what else -- gender trouble. Oh, long before my publication date, there were hints that men’s and women’s reactions to the book might be different. But I…
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The trouble started last fall, when my book Striptease: The Untold History of the Girlie Show was published by Oxford University Press. It was -- what else -- gender trouble. Oh, long before my publication date, there were hints that men’s and women’s reactions to the book might be different. But I…