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144 pp.
| Morgan
| August, 2004
|
LibraryISBN 1-931798-41-9$21.95
(4)
YA
Feminist Voices series.
This biography of the author of The Feminine Mystique begins with Friedan's unhappy childhood and follows her increasing radicalization through college and adulthood. Readers will need a good amount of background to understand the brief descriptions of communism, socialism, and feminism. Bohannon sometimes overgeneralizes as she covers so much history in relatively few pages. Timeline, websites. Bib., ind.