Tracey Ullman’s brilliant portrait of Betty Friedan in the FX series, Mrs. America features a real-life debate between Friedan and Phyllis Schlafly. Watching it led me to re-assess an interview I did ...

Mrs. America Season 1 isn’t your typical historical drama – it’s a captivating clash of titans, with a conservative housewife named Phyllis Schlafly unexpectedly leading the charge against the ...

What prods our feminist foremothers into the light of reappraisal? The condition of women in the world is a changing state of affairs, except of course, depressingly, in all the ways it isn’t.

Having forged her conservative credentials locking horns with such prominent feminists as Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem, it should come as no surprise that Phyllis Schlafly is not daunted by the ...

Ask an enlightened twenty-something of either sex if he or she is a feminist, and you may get a resounding “Yes!” Ask this feminist to name someone famous for being a feminist, and you will draw a ...