UE Fights for Women Workers WITH Women Fight for a Better Life (two pamphlets).
Presaging The Feminine Mystique
(Friedan, Betty) Goldberg, Betty. UE Fights for Women Workers: End Rate Discrimination! End Job Segregation! WITH Women Fight For A Better Life! - UE picture story of women’s role in American history. New York: United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), 1952 & 1953.
2 vols.; 8vo.; printed wrappers; stapled; light wear.
Separately-issued pamphlets predating by a decade Friedan’s landmark The Feminine Mystique, these comprise Friedan’s first two separately-published books (preceded by numerous periodical appearances).
Two foundational documents of feminism’s Second Wave – which most date to the 1963 publication of The Feminine Mystique. Though brief, these two pamphlets comprise a strenuous critique of gender inequality in industry as well as in society at large, presaging Friedan’s groundbreaking work of a decade later and revealing the genesis of Friedan’s theories regarding gender roles, marriage and women’s alienation.
Friedan (then Goldberg) authored the books anonymously while on the editorial staff of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, at this time among the most radical, old-line leftist trade unions in the U.S. and one of the first to seriously confront the question of workplace equity for women.
Scarce in commerce and uncommon in institutional collections – OCLC notes fewer than 10 locations for each title, and no holding institution’s catalog attributes either pamphlet to Friedan (though Friedan’s authorship is undisputed and widely documented in the secondary literature).
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