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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Regarding Erika Bachiochi’s “John Paul II, the Feminist Pope” (Houses of Worship, March 14): When one thinks of a feminist, such names as Margaret Sanger, Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem ...