David Denby replies to a review of his book.

As to Betty Friedan: What is all this nonsense about the famous “The Feminine Mystique” liberating only middle class white women? Mr. Denby asks. This was a courageous woman always pushing, pushing, ...

Women's Liberation was already well under way. Betty Friedan had published The Feminine Mystique in 1962, arguing that many women found life as a full-time housewife and mother unfulfilling. With ...

Feminism being the subject, you are thinking already that I am against women. But I am against feminism because it is against ...

the feminist Betty Friedan and the composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein. By his own account, Denby set out to write “a celebratory book, a happy book.” Here, the Upper West Side is the ...

He picked Mel Brooks, Betty Friedan, Norman Mailer, and Leonard Bernstein, and the book he produced is called “Eminent Jews.” “Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer” is written ...

Beatrice Faust is best remembered as the founder, early in 1972, of the Women's Electoral Lobby (WEL). Women's Liberation was already well under way ...

And what a celebration it is! For his project Denby chose four of the most brilliant and consequential American Jews in the arts and letters after the Second World War — Mel Brooks, Betty Friedan, ...

Women’s magazines, once replete with arcane rules for female submission, have evolved beyond recognition since the ...

In her latest column installment, Allen observes the political apathy on Stanford campus thanks to an over saturation of crisis.