BOOK PRESENTATION FOR WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH

Yale alumni, their family and friends are invited to celebrate Women’s History Month with prizewinning author Rachel Shteir, who will discuss her highly acclaimed book, Betty Friedan. Magnificent Disrupter, at the Chinatown branch of the Chicago Public Library on Sunday, March 9, from 2 to 4 p.m. Light refreshments will be served. This event is sponsored by the Yale Alumni College (YACOL).

Activist Betty Friedan, who became a celebrity with the release of The Feminine Mystique (1963), was a journalist who covered racism, sexism, labor, class inequality, and anti-Semitism; a wife and mother who struggled to balance her work and homemaking; and a cofounder of the National Organization for Women who fought for the Equal Rights Amendment. But her volatility and public conflicts fractured key relationships.

Published by Yale University Press, Rachel Shteir’s book is the first biography of Betty Friedan to appear in more than 20 years. The author draws on Friedan’s papers and on interviews with family, colleagues, and friends to create a nuanced portrait. Betty Friedan. Magnificent Disrupter was a New Yorker Magazine best book of 2023 and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography.

The book presentation will be followed by a Q&A and a book signing. If you already have a copy, bring it with you and Rachel will sign it! If you’d like to purchase a book in advance, go to https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300220025/betty-friedan/ and use code RSBET0325 to get a 30 percent discount.

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