I am a feminist. If GC would let me post a picture on this post it would be this:
http://store.feminist.org/thisiswhat...ackte,e-1.aspx
(I have a bunch of stickers with this slogan.)
I'm a member of an NPC group, and the P.E.O. Sisterhood, and the American Association of University Women. "Educated women" is a radical feminist concept, going back to Elena Piscopia (first woman to get a PhD, circa 1678) and, in the U.S. Mary Lyon, Emma Willard, Catharine Beecher, et al.
I read "The Feminine Mystique" when I went through Panhellenic rush/recruitment in September, 1970, and did not then (nor do I now) consider that contradictory or ironic.
I recommend reading "Bound by a Mighty Vow: Sisterhood and Women's Fraternities," by Diana Turk, and "When Everything Changed: the Amazing Journey of American Women, 1960 to the Present," by Gail Collins. (You can borrow both of them from your library. But you knew that already, didn't you?)