Friedan

[fri-dan]

noun

Betty (Naomi Gold·stein) [gohld-steen] /ˈgoʊld stin/, 1921–2006, U.S. women's-rights leader and writer.

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Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Shirley Chisholm and others started the National Organization for Women and Ms. Magazine.
Whither the Women’s Movement?
Judith Barnett
July 19, 2014
Bookforum called it “a book of rigor and undeceiving, one worthy of Friedan's tradition.”
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January 21, 2011

British Dictionary definitions for friedan

Friedan

noun

Betty . 1921–2006, US feminist, founder and first president (1966–70) of the National Organization for Women. Her books include The Feminine Mystique (1963), The Second Stage (1982), and The Fountain of Life (1993)

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