Feminist vs. Feminist

[Natasha]

Feminist vs. Feminist

http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/05/03/feminist-vs-feminist-2/
5/3/09

Naomi Wolf, author of The Beauty Myth, reviews a new biography of Cosmopolitan magazine founder Helen Gurley-Brown, and uses it as an opportunity to declare young, fun feminists "the winners" in the feminism wars.

"Sex and the Single Girl," Brown's brash, breezy and sometimes scandalous young-woman's guide to thriving in the Mad Men and Playboy era, made headlines the year before Friedan's severe, profound manifesto burst onto the scene. Since then, the media and the women's movement itself have put these two icons in opposition, pitting Friedan's intellectual, ideological, group-oriented feminism against Brown's pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps, girl-power style.