Reading Betty Friedan After the Fall of Roe

The problem no longer has no name, and yet we refuse to solve it

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Nearly 60 years ago, Betty Friedan wrote about the “problem with no name.” It was as she defined it in her groundbreaking work, The Feminine Mystique, the malaise of a generation …