How accurate is 'Mrs. America's' portrayal of Phyllis Schlafly? We asked a historian
FX on Hulu series “Mrs. America,” about the fight for — and against — the Equal Rights Amendment — is compelling, ambitious TV drama.Schlafly was perceived as a marginal figure who’d lost her influence in the Republican Party
As Friedan, Abzug and the members of the National Women’s Political Caucus celebrate the passage of the ERA in the Senate, Jill Ruckelshaus — a Republican feminist played by Elizabeth Banks— dismisses Schlafly, who’s just come out against the ERA in her newsletter, as a “right-wing nut from Illinois.” Abzug also brushes her off as someone “on the fringe.”This view was widely held on both sides of the aisle, Spruill said.
These conversations accurately reflect the fears many women had about the ERA. Whether their fears were justified is another matter, Spruill explained. “The very vagueness of the Equal Rights Amendment meant there was going to be a lot of argument about what it would do, and that would have to be worked out in the courts and in the legislature. It wasn’t super clear.”Many of Schlafly’s foot soldiers were women who, like Alice, “didn’t believe that they had marketable skills [outside the home].
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