Feminism and the Common Good: The California Health Care System

Is American feminism about to become interesting again? The June 3, 1996 issue of the New Yorker opened with Betty Friedan’s comments on the Stand for Children event in Washington, D.C. Under the subhead, “A gathering heralds a shift toward a new paradigm,” Friedan marked feminists’ growing awareness of the limitations of gender-based identity politics. “As a number of recent polls have made clear,” she said, “the most urgent concerns of women today are not gender issues�...