Betty Friedan was one of the feminists particularly worried about lesbians. Friedan authored The Feminine Mystique, a 1963 book that revealed the dissatisfaction many women felt with traditional roles ...

My initial reaction to Bess Wohl’s play “Liberation,” which primarily takes place in a women’s consciousness-raising group in Ohio in the early ’70s, was that it was a hair too earnest and unsubtle. I ...