BELLA VS. BETTY.(The Talk of the Town)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 13-NOV-06

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In a year of all-too-public reconciliations (ranging from Tom and Brooke to Paris and Nicole), word of a rapprochement between the followers of the late Betty Friedan and those of the late Bella Abzug has been relatively slow to spread. It all started, inauspiciously enough, with Friedan's death, in February. "The family wanted the funeral to be a family ceremony," Sidney Abbott, the founder of a group called Women's Rights Are Human Rights, explained recently. "But there were many frustrated feminists there who wanted to hear what Kate"--Kate Millett, the author of the 1970 manifesto "Sexual Politics"--"and others had to say."

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