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Betty Friedan's Books
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Life So FarIt 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...Read More
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Fountain of AgeStruggling to hold on to the illusion of youth, Friedan wrote, we have denied the reality and evaded the new triumphs of growing older. We have seen...Read More
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Spectator, May 17, 2012
...pointing out the frustrations of many young wives like herself. The title is a bow to the feminist Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique, which spoke out on problems which many women were afraid to admit. Grimy. Oh dear me, yes — literally as well as...
St. Petersburg Times, May 12, 2012
...issues, what authors do you think of? I was helped enormously because of writers like Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan. At the time, they were interesting reads, although they certainly did not dominate my life. I think the women's movement that they...
Canada Free Press, May 10, 2012
...feminists as the opportunity to be as promiscuous as the men they resented but secretly envied. In 1963, Betty Friedan, a leftist intellectual expecting her second child, published “The Feminist Mystique.” She had previously surveyed women about the...
Chicago Tribune, April 26, 2012
...book just two years later: "Gift From the Sea," a quietly feminist text published eight years before Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique." Its long run on the bestseller lists shows "how many unhappy women there are in America," she commented wryly;...
Havasu News-Herald, April 24, 2012
...Mrs. Clinton’s condescension, however, was only a faint echo of the brutal comments made by feminist matriarch Betty Friedan in her 1963 book “The Feminine Mystique.” “I am convinced there is something about the housewife state itself that is...
South Carolina State, April 20, 2012
...women?s movement in America, with pundits decrying the absence of a vocal spokeswoman, such as Gloria Steinem or Betty Friedan, to lead the national dialogue. However, Steinem herself said in a recent interview that ?A galvanizer for the women?s rights...
Brisbane Times, April 13, 2012
...that third wave of feminists whose inspirational texts were not written by turn-of-the-century novelists but Germaine Greer and Betty Friedan, Simone de Beauvoir and Gloria Steinem. When I entered the workforce, as a 16-year-old cadet journalist, I...
American Thinker, March 3, 2012
...with Planned Parenthood for sex "education" materials, including the pamphlet, "How to Know You Are Ready For Sex." Betty Friedan, the co-founder of NOW and NARAL, sat on the GSUSA Board from 1970 to 1982. In 2010, the GSUSA partnered with the Urban...
Huffington Post, March 2, 2012
...Republican politicians today who are once again trying to put women into the role of second-class citizens. Bella, Betty Friedan, Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan, Ann Richards, Betty Ford and so many others would have already called for action; maybe...
Huffington Post, March 2, 2012
...Republican politicians today who are once again trying to put women into the role of second-class citizens. Bella, Betty Friedan, Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan, Ann Richards, Betty Ford and so many others would have already called for action; maybe a...
Huffington Post, March 1, 2012
...producer of his acclaimed Public Television series, The Civil War. She also struck up a lasting friendship with Betty Friedan when the feminist icon and I were Fellows at the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard in 1982. While visiting my wife and I from...
Huffington Post, March 1, 2012
...producer of his acclaimed Public Television series, The Civil War. She also struck up a lasting friendship with Betty Friedan when the feminist icon and I were Fellows at the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard in 1982. While visiting my wife and I from...
Huffington Post, March 1, 2012
...on the verge of tears. She is sexually challenging -- or beseeching -- and she recalls the housewives Betty Friedan wrote about in The Feminine Mystique, who sought to assuage their dissatisfaction with the narrow domestic life to which they were...
The New Republic Online, February 28, 2012
...1963, James Baldwin’s angry yet hopeful The Fire Next Time branded racism “a recipe for murder”; and Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique provided a candid, stirring diagnosis of female submission which helped galvanize the fledgling women’s...
