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May 31, 2018 · 2. SHE WAS ONCE FIRED FOR BEING PREGNANT. After marrying ad executive Carl Friedan in 1947, Friedan took a job at UE News, a labor trade newspaper. There, Friedan got another glimpse of the harsh ...
Betty Friedan is the Founder of the National Organization for Women, the National Women’s Caucus, and the National Abortion Rights Action League. She is a Visiting Professor at New York ...
Betty Friedan. 1921-2006. Journalist, activist, and co-founder of the National Organization for Women, Betty Friedan was one of the early leaders of the women’s rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Her 1963 best-selling book, The Feminine Mystique, gave voice to millions of American women’s frustrations with their limited gender roles ...
IN 1963, BETTY FRIEDAN (1921–2006) published The Feminine Mystique, a founding text of modern feminism that is considered one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. 1 She was born Bettye Goldstein in Peoria, Illinois, on February 4, 1921. Her father, Harry Goldstein, emigrated from Russia in the 1880s, and built a successful ...
Sep 17, 2001 · The Feminine Mystique. $14.63. (1,908) In Stock. The book that changed the consciousness of a country―and the world. Landmark, groundbreaking, classic―these adjectives barely describe the earthshaking and long-lasting effects of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. This is the book that defined "the problem that has no name," that ...
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Betty Friedan. As a feminist, an activist, and an author, Betty Friedan helped launch the women's movement of the 1960s with her groundbreaking book, The Feminine Mystique. In addition to The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan is the author of It Changed My Life, The Second Stage, and The Fountain of Age. Friedan was one of the founders of the ...
Image Collage: Betty friedan National Women’s History Museum The Instigator. Ten years after “The Second Sex” was published in the United States, American feminist writer Betty Friedan helped ignite the second feminist wave with her book “The Feminine Mystique.” Released in 1963, Friedan builds on the foundation of Simone de Beauvoir ...
