Betty Friedan (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Judith Hennessee
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1921 to the present
- Setting: Peoria, Illinois, and New York City
- Principal Characters: Harry Goldstein, Miriam Goldstein, Amy Goldstein, Harry Goldstein, Jr., Carl Friedan, Bella Abzug, Gloria Steinem
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, New York City, 1940’s, Midwest, 1920’s, 1930’s, 1980’s, Feminism, 1990’s, Women’s movement
- Locales: New York, NY, Peoria, IL
Betty Friedan is famous for her epoch-making book The Feminine Mystique (1963) and for her work as the founding president of the National Organization for Women (NOW). Although other women writers, such as Simone de Beauvoir, had challenged the male dominance of society a generation earlier, Friedan brought feminist arguments into the mainstream and the lives of not only militant career women but also women who read conventional women’s magazines. Friedan took a popular approach, writing in a language that was less austere than that of her predecessors. Moreover, Friedan...
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