Even a decade after the publication of her book, The Feminine Mystique, widely credited for sparking second-wave feminism in the United States, the male establishment took neither Betty Friedan nor the women’s movement seriously. In this context, “Betty Friedan and the Movement That Outgrew Her” by Moira Donegan” reviews the early years of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and how Friedan dominated it, with decidedly mixed results.

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