Every political cause has its heroes and villains, though Mrs America expertly depicts the grey space between them.
So too the factions – black vs white, young vs old, gay vs straight, working mothers vs stay-at-home ones.
There’s a moment in the television series Mrs America when the journalist and feminist campaigner Gloria Steinem makes a late-night phone call to Betty Friedan, author of The Feminine Mystique.
Friedan’s book argued against the post-war cult of the housewife and lit the touch paper for feminism’s second wave in America.