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SCRUBDASHRUB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-13-06 10:47 PM
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Pay tribute to Betty Friedan here.
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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-14-06 10:38 AM
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1. The Name of This Group Came Indirectly Through Friedan
The Squeeze song, "Woman's World" refers to one of Friedan's points in TFM. Quoting from Wiki:

At the same time, America's post-war economic boom had led to the development of new technologies that were supposed to make household work less difficult, but that often had the result of making women's work less meaningful and valuable.

"The crown of the kingdom is given to the woman
The kingdom of the kitchen where she says she shouldn't,
There on the stainless steel her cigarettes and matches
Whistles to the radio to every hook she catches,
But the frowns
Eider downs,
Tie her down
But she likes to wear the crown of the kingdom.
She like the recipes a touch of oriental
Steaming up the windows burning egg on metal,
Sees in a catalogue a shiny new appliance
Another role swallowed by the wonders of science,
Lobster hands
Omelette pans,
Understand
How the crown can stick like jam in her kingdom."
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