Join Jewish Lives and Park Avenue Synagogue for a FREE in-person or online discussion with author Rachel Shteir about the life and legacy of Betty Friedan.
Betty Friedan, author, activist, and champion for women’s rights, was both a powerful and polarizing figure. As a journalist covering racism, sexism and antisemitism, and later as the author of the groundbreaking work The Feminine Mystique and cofounder of the National Organization of Women (NOW), Friedan fought for important protections for women. Author Rachel Shteir will share how Friedan’s Judaism was essential to her feminism, and how her work leaves a lasting legacy.
Rachel Shteir is an award-winning essayist, writer, and critic, and is head of the Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism Program at the Theatre School at DePaul University. She is the author of Striptease: The Untold History of the Girlie Show, Gypsy: The Art of the Tease, and The Steal: A Cultural History of Shoplifting.
This program is in partnership with Park Avenue Synagogue.
