(JTA) — When Betty Friedan published “The Feminine Mystique” in 1963, she set fire to a simmering discontent among millions of American women, blowing up the myth that feminine fulfillment ...

Where are you from? BETTY FRIEDAN: I was born and grew up in Peoria, Illinois, which you might say is the middle of the middle of America, what used to be a synonym almost: "hick," "hayseed" or ...

In a pivotal scene, she’s confronted by feminist author Betty Friedan, who wants to know why she is holding women back. The doyenne of domesticity explains that it’s all about women having the ...

Hanh Nguyen "The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan After a lifetime of reading around it, I actually tucked in to Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique," and was shocked at how bracingly ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, published on Feb. 19, 1963, is considered one of the most influential non-fiction books of the 20th ...

And as an attorney, her work informed feminist leaders Betty Friedan (above), Shirley Chisholm and Ruth Bader Ginsburg—who cited Murray as coauthor on her landmark gender-equality case in 1971.

Betty Friedan was a journalist who carried out research into how women felt about their lives in the early 1960s. She published her findings in a book called The Feminine Mystique (1963), which ...

“Aging is not ‘lost youth’ but a new stage of opportunity and strength." Betty Friedan. This quote succinctly captures the crossroads we all face, as we age: one can look back with a sense ...