journalist (and future senator) Richard L. Neuberger, for ex- ample, Dorothy McCullough Lee was portrayed as both an "ethereally pale housewife" with a "frail, willowy" appearance and the hard-nosed mayor of Portland, Oregon, who had success- fully fought organized crime and was "headed for national distinction."
The magazines that set the tone of postwar America did not pretend that women were crea- tures only of hearth and home. In reality, Friedan, herself a veteran...