Betty Friedan was an early leader of the women’s rights movement of the 1960s and '70s. Published in 1963, her book, "The Feminine Mystique," voiced the frustrations of millions of American women at ...

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What prods our feminist foremothers into the light of reappraisal? The condition of women in the world is a changing state of affairs, except of course, depressingly, in all the ways it isn’t.

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 "will it play in Peoria".

T oday, Betty Friedan is recognized for two enormous accomplishments: her 1963 best seller, The Feminine Mystique, which helped push the women’s movement into the national conversation, and cofounding ...

The leader of the women’s movement being punched out by her husband – and taking it? In recent weeks, media outlets from Newsweek to the Times have zeroed in on the George scoop, an explosive excerpt ...

Betty Friedan had a thing about floor care. Mopping the linoleum, scrubbing the bathroom tile, vacuuming a mere twice weekly -- this humdrum trope runs through "The Feminine Mystique" with the ...

During a break in the recording of Virginia Graham’s television show, “Girl Talk,” Betty Friedan screamed at the audience: “If you don’t let me have my say I’m going to say the word ‘orgasm’ ten times ...

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 began and ended ...

In “The Movement,” Clara Bingham captures the years 1963-73 in the voices of the women who lived it. By Anna Holmes Lara Bazelon’s “Ambitious Like A Mother” is the latest addition to a tall pile of ...