Women's Rights Movement Covers Familiar Ground But Does It Fairly Well
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| Gloria Steinem |
Makers: Women Who Make America a three-hour documentary on PBS
stations on Tuesday (8pm), is the story of the last 50 years of the American
women’s movement, from the publication of Betty Friedan’s book “The
Feminine Mystique,” which reassured housewives and mothers that they had
good reason to feel unfulfilled, to the paradoxes of 2013.
Most of us have seen the old television
commercials before, those 1950s ads that marketed products by telling
women how stupid and disappointing they were.
So, in the beginning, this
program feels like old news (one generation has seen it all before, and
the other doesn’t care), but the narrative quickly comes together and
still has the power to astound.
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