Friedan

[fri-dan]

noun

1. Betty (Naomi Goldstein) 1921–2006, U.S. women's-rights leader and writer.

Friedan

/ ˈfriːdən /

noun

1. 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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Colleen Dolan, an education expert with expertise in Stephen King film adaptations, tells Salon, “B***hery gets them out of the straightjacket of respectability, what Betty Friedan had called the ‘feminine mystique.’

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After a lifetime of reading around it, I actually tucked in to Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique," and was shocked at how bracingly relevant this sacred text of second-wave feminism felt.

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The 1963 publication of Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique” helped pierce that myth and nudge the country into the second wave of American feminism.

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Betty Friedan wrote that “housewifery expands to fill the time available,” and the same is true of bad political news.

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Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique” was already a best seller in the mid-1960s when Ms. Scanzoni began writing for Eternity, an evangelical Christian magazine that often challenged conservative attitudes on social issues.

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