Carter Sherman
speaker
754 appearances
6 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 8 Sep
Carter Sherman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Let's not say that this was something that happened to her on accident.
She knew the power of how she looked, even though, yes, she talked later on about feeling like the emphasis on her appearance really undercut her professionalism and her accolades.
Betty Friedan, who is the writer of The Feminine Mystique, which is it's a book about what's called the problem that has no name.
And it's basically about why do housewives feel so bad?
And the book is really credited with sparking second wave feminism because it was such a runaway bestseller.
But it was also extremely concerned with the issues facing white middle class housewives.
And I think that this was also a critique leveled at Gloria Steinem, fairly or unfairly, that as a white woman in particular, she was taking up a lot of the spotlight.
And that was why she was so, so elevated and pedestaled by people outside the movement.
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This is, I think, one of the things that is still debated about her.
Because there are these real critiques of second wave feminism,
I think sometimes she gets lumped in with that and it's not always recognized how much work she did do with Black women and how much credit she extended to them.
She worked famously with Florence Kennedy, who was a Black civil rights lawyer.
She spoke often with Dorothy Pittman Hughes.
There was a very famous photo of the two of them both having their fists up in the air.
She was a fierce advocate for Shirley Chisholm, who was a Black pioneering congresswoman.
And she actually ran for president.
Gloria Steinem was a huge advocate for her for that.
Gloria Steinem also talked a lot about how inspired she was by Native and Indigenous women.
And I do think she really tried to talk about how racism and sexism are intertwined and cannot be addressed on their own.
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