Did I ever tell you?” She hadn’t. As soon as she started to explain how Friedan’s book had impacted her and her closest ...

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 ...

The church’s ancient defense of women’s dignity proffered by St. Augustine doesn’t need modern ideologies.

(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 ...

The women’s movement was hijacked and distorted by the sexual revolution. The first edition of Betty Friedan’s 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique was pro-family and pro-men. It made no mention ...

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.

“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 ...