Beyond Gender

The New Politics of Work and Family

Author: Betty Friedan
Secondary Author: Brigid O'Farrell
ISBN: 9780943875842

"A basic restructuring of our economy is needed now," writes Betty Friedan in her latest book, Beyond Gender. "And this restructuring can't be accomplished in terms of women versus men, black versus white, old versus young, conservative versus liberal. We need a new political movement in America that puts the lives and interests of people first. It can't be done by separate, single-issue movements now, and it has to be political to protect and translate our new empowerment with a new vision of community, with new structures of community that open the doors again to real equality of opportunity."As the author of The Feminine Mystique and head of the National Organization for Women, Betty Friedan helped spark a movement that revolutionized the fight for equal rights and opportunities for women. Now, in Beyond Gender, Friedan argues that the old solutions no longer work. The time has come, she contends, for women and men to move forward from identity politics and gender-based, single-issu

Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Publish Date: 1997-10-10

Subjects: Business & Economics / Human Resources & Personnel Management, Business & Economics / Labor, Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Social Science / Gender Studies

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