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"Mrs. America" Depicts Betty Friedan’s Achilles’ Heel

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By Sue Kolod, Ph.D. Tracey Ullman’s brilliant portrait of Betty Friedan in the FX series, Mrs. America features a real-life debate between Friedan and Phyllis Schlafly.

Watching it led me to re-assess an interview I did of Friedan for a 2005 conference when she was 84 years old. In addition to her seminal best seller, The Feminine Mystique (1963), which galvanized the Women’s Liberation Movement, Friedan wrote a book about aging, called The Fountain of Age (1993).

In 2005, I organized a conference panel on the psychological impact of menopause and invited her to speak. I found her phone number and cold-called.

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