Betty Friedan (Identities and Issues in Literature)
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A dominant theme of Betty Friedan’s life was her persistent endeavor to establish her own identity as a woman and feminist. Born Betty Naomi Goldstein in 1921, she started a writing career in New York after her graduation from Smith College in 1942 and graduate work at the University of California at Berkeley. From the outset she encountered experiences that drove home her standing as a woman in a male-dominated society. Employed by a labor newspaper during World War II, her job disappeared when the soldiers returned. She married Carl Friedan in 1947 and had...
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