This article was published October 13, 2015, at ReligionNews.com.
Longtime Cosmo writer reveals how she hijacked the women’s rights crusade
SAN FRANCISCO – The 1960s women’s rights movement has had a profoundly adverse impact on women throughout the United States, including
Sue Ellen Browder, a former ardent propagandist for sexual liberation who wrote stories meant to soft-sell unmarried sex, contraception and abortion
as the single woman’s path to personal fulfillment as a longtime freelance writer for Cosmopolitan, one of the most highly regarded and
influential women’s magazines.
Browder’s personal story of how she helped the sexual revolution hijack the women’s movement — and its effects on her life and the future of
America — is chronicled in her enthralling new book, SUBVERTED.
She recounts why, as a Cosmopolitan journalist — her dream job — she was a dedicated follower of Planned Parenthood founder
Margaret Sanger and fabricated numerous stories, with the approval of her editors, to sell the casual-sex lifestyle to millions of single, working
women.
Browder admits she was guilty of promoting a distorted feminism, and exposes how women were turned into commodities during the profane alliance between
the women’s movement and the sexual revolution through in-depth research, probing analysis and honest self-reflection. Browder’s determined search
for truth, integrity and justice for women that led her into journalism in the first place eventually led her to find forgiveness and freedom in
the place she least expected to find them, the Catholic Church.
“SUBVERTED offers a window into our uniquely disturbed historical era,” says Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., founder and president
of the Ruth Institute. “Generations of readers will turn to SUBVERTED when they want to know what turned the tide.”
