The study followed a ground-breakingsurveypublished60yearsago by Dr AlfredKinsey, also of the Universityof Indiana, andanotherstudy with nationwide reach which was published in 1994.
Perhaps the strangest is Condon, who has directed decidedly grown-up biopics on sex researcher AlfredKinsey and James Whale, the man who brought Frankenstein to the screen.
She has played a protective single mother in You Can Count on Me, a scheming, malevolent Bertha Dorset in The House of Mirth, and the wife of sex researcher AlfredKinsey in Kinsey, among many other diverse characters.
In 1999, the political scientist Alan Wolfe pointed out that much of the scholarship Friedan relied on in her diagnosis of the feminine mystique work by Margaret Mead, AlfredKinsey, and Bruno Bettelheim has since turned out to be suspect.