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Betty Friedan
Victims of a false belief system, women were following strict social convention by loyally conforming to the pretty image of the magazines, and found themselves forced to seek meaning in…
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Rachel Shteir
A new portrait of Betty Friedan, the author and activist acclaimed as the mother of second-wave feminism
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The feminist writer and activist Betty Friedan (1921-2006), pathbreaking author of The Feminine Mystique, was powerful and polarizing. In this biography, the first in more than twenty years, Rachel Shteir…
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Alexandra Zsuppan
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Writer, teacher, and public intellectual, Betty Friedan has been in the spotlight almost continuously since the publication of The Feminine Mystique, her landmark book, in 1963. Interviews with Betty Friedan…
It was Betty Freidan herself, in Life So Far, who spoke about her life and career and told us what it was all like from the inside. With the unsparing…
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The title of this book reflects what the author heard after the publication of her book The Feminine Mystique . It helped women put a name to the sense of…
Betty Friedan argues that once past the initial stages of describing and working against politcal and economic injustices, the women’s movement should focus on working with men to remake private…
If you’ve never read it, read it now. -Arianna Huffington, O, The Oprah Magazine
Professor Betty Friedan
Betty Friedan launches a new revolution with this powerful, bestselling book breaking through the American mystique of aging as decline. Through hundreds of interviews, Friedan confronts our denial and demolishes…
Elizabeth Whitaker
In 1963’s The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan challenged the vision 1950s America had of itself as a nation of happy housewives and contented families.
In 1963’s The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan challenged the vision 1950s America had of itself as a nation of happy housewives and contented families. After World War II, society had…
Daniel Horowitz
This biography of Betty Friedan traces the development of her feminist outlook from her childhood in Illinois to her marriage. Horowitz offers a reading of The Feminine Mystique and argues…
Malin Lidstroem Brock
This book draws attention to the controversy that surrounds Betty Friedan, Germaine Greer, Gloria Steinem, and Simone de Beauvoir’s lives and the important role that their life stories have played…
Jules Archer
Originally published by Viking in 1991 as Breaking barriers: the feminist revolution from Susan B. Anthony to Margaret Sanger to Betty Friedan
