Beyond Gender : The New Politics Of Work And Family - 97 edition

Friedan, Betty :

Betty Friedan, a leading advocate for women's rights and author of The Feminine Mystique, and, most recently, of The Fountain of Age, is currently Distinguished Professor of Social Evolution and Director of the Center for Women, Men, and Social Evolution at Mount Vernon College in Washington, D.C., and is an Adjunct Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Brigid O'Farrell, a sociologist, is a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Women, Men, and Social Evolution; her most recent book is Rocking the Boat: Union Women's Voices, 1915-1975, written with Joyce Kornbluh.

"Betty Friedan remains feminism's foremost visionary and thinker."

--Katie Roiphe, author of Last Night In Paradise: Sex and Morals at the Century's End

"Betty Friedan's Beyond Gender breaks through the old schisms and divisions and gives us a new context for discussing a common agenda. Her book opens the door to a new debate on the relationship between family, the workplace and society that could help reshape the national agenda in the coming century."

--Jeremy Rifkin, Author of The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era

"With her usual clarity and perception, Betty Friedan explores the forces working against the family, and how fathers and mothers, employers, communities, and our country's policy makers can begin to give our children all they need to become healthy, productive, and secure adults."

--Marian Wright Edelman, President, The Children's Defense Fund

"Betty Friedan slices right to the heart of what is perhaps the biggest problem we face. The rich are getting richer and everyone else is barely holding on or sinking. The right wing is calling on people to blame their troubles on the down and out. And progressives are too divided to push back. Friedan begins to piece together a brilliant solution. Every person of conscience should read this book and get on the bandwagon. I'm there."

--Arlie Russell Hochschild, Author of The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work

"Betty Friedan sparked the women's movement with The Feminine Mystique. With this book she seeks nothing less than to shift the paradigm of gender politics beyond issues of women versus men to address the needs of people -- as family members, workers, and citizens."

--Douglas J. Besharov, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

"An energetic presentation of conservative and progressive ideas on creating a more liveable society -- spiked with the spirit of Betty Friedan who pokes and prods us all to get out of our traditional political boxes and work together for the common good."

--Susan Bianchi-Sand, Executive Director, National Committee on Pay Equity, Chair of the Council of Presidents of National Women's Organizations

Johns Hopkins University Press Web Site, July, 2000