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Smith Faculty Member Wins Prize for EssayDaniel Horowitz, Sylvia Dlugasch Bauman Professor of American Studies at Smith College, has received the 1997 Constance Rourke Prize for the best article published in the journal "American Quarterly." According to the prize citation, Horowitz's article "Rethinking Betty Friedan and 'The Feminine Mystique': Labor Union Radicalism and Feminism in Cold War America," "has given us access to historical contexts for ['The Feminine Mystique'] and for second-wave liberal feminism that had long been submerged. His careful reconstruction of Friedan's radical past...exposes unexpected continuities between generations of radical thinkers and activists, and forces us to reconsider the oft-noted class and racial limitations of Friedan's book." The citation goes on to say that "Horowitz's argument--judiciously framed, yet bold in its historiographical implications--is built upon a meticulous piecing together of sometimes-fragmentary evidence, and ensures that we will never again see Friedan and the movement that she came to stand for in quite the same ways." Horowitz is presently at work on a book-length manuscript on Freidan, who was a member of the class of 1942 at Smith. |
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