Editors’ Note
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The Feminine Mystique at Fifty
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Activists’ Panel
Mary Ann Johnson, Rebecca Sive, Christine Riddiough, Anne Ladky, and Joan Hall
“To Fulfill an Ambition of [Her] Own”: Work, Class, and Identity in The Feminine Mystique
Katherine Turk
“The Happy Housewife Heroine” and “The Sexual Sell”: Legacies of Betty Friedan’s Critique of the Image of Women
Elizabeth Fraterrigo
The Feminine Mystique at Fifty
Susan Levine
Normalizing the “Variant” in
The Ladder, America’s Second Lesbian Magazine, 1956–1963
Elyse Vigiletti
Undermining Identities in Johnny Blazes’
Check One Please: The Ambiguous Body as Feminist Performance Tool
Kellyn Johnson
Artist Statement
Gail Thacker
“We Are Extraordinarily Lucky to Be Living in These Times”: A Conversation with Grace Lee Boggs
Karín Aguilar-San Juan
Sensibility and Science: Motherhood and the Gendering of Knowledge in Two Mezzotints after Joseph Wright of Derby
Louise Siddons
Elizabeth Barton’s Claim: Feminist Defiance in
Wolf Hall Robinson Murphy
Constructing Radical Black Female Subjectivities: Survival Pimping in Austin Clarke’s
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PoetryAdagio
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Four Women on a Ptown Beach
J. Dee Cochran
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Turns Forty! Reflections from Former Editors
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