| Betty Friedan speaking for the International Year of Women, 1975 (The New Yes speech?) | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 261 |
| Catalog #: | 501487 | |
| Clip Number: | 501487-5 | |
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| Timecode: | 00:34:47 - 00:37:55 | |
| Location: | United States | |
| Year Shot: | 1975 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CIVIL RIGHTS: Women LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA POLITICS: Public Address (Speech) | |
| Description: | Betty Friedan continued, "That dichotomy between the morality and the ethics, you know, of what you preach on Sunday and what you live day by day. Whether theology is made not only by women who breed, who give birth to children, who have to deal with the dailyness of life, but when men too share that it will be a different kind of theology, the bridge between the personal and the political, the personal and the theological, the daily, the concrete and the abstract, the immediate and the divine. The theological debate of the 60's was, "Is God dead?" the 70's, "is God He?" not necessarily She, but when we release that which is feminine to be active and assertive in women and in man we take the next step in human evolution. And in this most fantastic and mysterious way of ongoing transcendent life it is all happening, in merger, as we dry up the fossil fuels, you know, as other crisis occur. This qualitative leap, implicit in the sexual role revolution begun by the women’s movement. For those of us who've started it and for you who will carry it on, the women and the men. The reward is not pie in the sky, not some future abstract promise that has been the reward of previous revolutions. The reward is in the here and now, in the experience transformation of our lives, in the better and more alive ability to live and be ourselves and to make love not war. But for women there is something really new in history, that for women, not just a few empresses and queens, but millions and millions of ordinary American women, for the first time they know the unique human experience of transcending the finite daily bounds of their own life, of a casting a net into the future, not just by giving birth biologically to a child, but by existential, confronting the conditions of their life and finding their power to move with each other to change them. Changing the face of history, changing agenda of history, changing the very possibilities of our life for our sons and our daughters. The human passion, the experience of making herstory, not just history. That is the reward for those of us who've done it and no woman, no matter what the new problems she faces and it isn't a happy ever after road. There are new problems each turn. No woman would ever turn back. I hope you go on to the new yes." | |
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