Friedan, Betty
(b. February 4, 1921) Influential feminist, author of The Feminine Mystique.
Bettye (later changed to Betty) Naomi Goldstein was born on February 4, 1921, in Peoria, Illinois, to a je...
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Betty Friedan
Born February 4, 1921Peoria, Illinois
Writer, women's rights activist
Betty Friedan. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.
The feminist movement began sweeping Am...
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Betty Friedan (born 1921) is a women's rights activist, author of The Feminine Mystique, and a founding member of the National Organization for Women, the National Abortion Rights Action League, and t...
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With the publication of The Feminine Mystique (1963) Betty Friedan helped launch the second wave of the women's movement in the United States. Led by what she calls her "inner Geiger counter," she pio...
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In 1963 a feminist author named Betty Friedan wrote a famous book named The Feminine Mystique in 1963 with over 5 million copies sold by 1970. Since then Friedan has written many books a...
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