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Activists’ Panel

Activists’ Panel Mary Ann Johnson, Rebecca Sive, Christine Riddiough, Anne Ladky, and Joan Hall Mary Ann Johnson (mj): How and when did you first become aware of The Feminine Mystique? Describe the context in which you learned about it. How did it strike you at the time? How did it influence you? If the book had little influence on you, please tell us why, and perhaps identify a book that did influence you instead. Because I know that not everybody was influenced by The Feminine Mystique. Rebecca Sive (rs): I don't actually remember when I first heard about the book, although I believe it was while I was at Carleton [College]. My major adviser was Paul Wellstone, and so we had a lot of terrific opportunities to learn about social and political movements. My mother raised five children and had a very successful career, but did have primary child-care responsibility. I don't remember her reading the book. I don't remember seeing it in our house. There were a lot of other books about politics, but not that one. So, the book that really compelled me to act, to answer Mary Ann's question, was Robin Morgan's collection of essays, Sisterhood Is http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies University of Nebraska Press

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Mary Ann Johnson, Rebecca Sive, Christine Riddiough, Anne Ladky, and Joan Hall Mary Ann Johnson (mj): How and when did you first become aware of The Feminine Mystique? Describe the context in which you learned about it. How did it strike you at the time? How did it influence you? If the book had little influence on you, please tell us why, and perhaps identify a book that did influence you instead. Because I know that not everybody was influenced by The Feminine Mystique. Rebecca Sive (rs): I don't actually remember when I first heard about the book, although I believe it was while I was at Carleton [College]. My major adviser was Paul Wellstone, and so we had a lot of terrific opportunities to learn about social and political movements. My mother raised five children and had a very successful career, but did have primary child-care responsibility. I don't remember her reading the book. I don't remember seeing it in our house. There were a lot of other books about politics, but not that one. So, the book that really compelled me to act, to answer Mary Ann's question, was Robin Morgan's collection of essays, Sisterhood Is

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Frontiers: A Journal of Women StudiesUniversity of Nebraska Press

Published: Aug 22, 2015

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