David Denby replies to a review of his book.

Do you remember the early days of the Women’s Rights movements, Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, NOW, and more recently, the MeToo movement? All were fighting for equal rights for women, and addressing ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

On 4/20, we should stop and appreciate how Jewish stoners erased Hitler’s birthday.

I suspect I failed it. It’s not something that Virginia Woolf or Betty Friedan ever prepared us for – an all-woman space crew which served quotes like: “I think it’s so important for ...

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 ...

“Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer,” by David Denby. Contributed Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article ...

Betty Lucille Simmons, 89 of Henrico, Va. took the Lord’s hand and went to her eternal home early the afternoon of April 9, 2025. Betty was a great wife and mother and the consummate military wife, ...