FRIEDAN, BETTY NAOMI

1921–, American social reformer and feminist, b. Peoria, Ill. as Bettye Goldstein, educated at Smith College (B.A., 1942) and the Univ. of California at Berkeley. In 1963 she published The Feminine Mystique, attacking the popular notion that women could find fulfillment only through childbearing and homemaking. In 1966 she helped found the National Organization for Women and served as its president until 1970; she helped found the National Women's Political Caucus in 1971. In The Second Stage (1981), she argued that feminists must reclaim the family and bring more men into the movement by addressing child care, parental leave, and flexible work schedules. In The Fountain of Age (1993) Friedan criticized "the age mystique" and society's frequently patronizing treatment of the elderly; she advocated new, positive roles for older citizens.

See her memoir (2000); biography by J. Hennessee (1999).

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Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique: The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism
Book by Daniel Horowitz; University of Massachusetts Press, 1998
Subjects: Feminism--United States, Feminists--United States--Biography, Friedan, Betty, United States--Politics And Government--20th Century
Friedan, Betty e Naomi Goldstein cont . suburban life, Parkway Village/Rockland...Amy, 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 121 , 261 n.4 Goldstein, Bettye Naomi. See Friedan, Betty e Naomi Goldstein Goldstein, Harry, 17 , 261 n.3 and anti-Semitism...
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The Social Conscience of Latin American Writing
Book by Naomi Lindstrom; University of Texas Press, 1998
Subjects: Latin American Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, Latin American Literature--History And Criticism, Literature And Society--Latin America, Postmodernism (Literature)--Latin America
...Gunder, 26 Frankfurt School, 10 , 47 , 92 , 98 - 101 , 102 , 106 Freud, Sigmund, 131 , 132 Freyre, Gilberto, 5 Friedan, Betty, 116 Fuentes, Carlos, 62 , 63 - 64 , 98 Furtado, Celso, 29 Galvao, Patricia nickname Pagu , 136 Garcia Canclini...
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Single Parents by Choice: A Growing Trend in Family Life
Book by Naomi Miller; Insight Books, 1992
Subjects: Single Mothers, Single Parents, Single-Parent Families
...185 marriage rate, 184 Freud, Sigmund on adoption, 53 on child development, 196 on homosexuality, 155 -156 Friedan, Betty, 14 , 111 Gay, word origin, 150 Gay adoptive parents; see also Children of gay parents; Lesbian mothers; Single...
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Race and Mixed Race
Book by Naomi Zack; Temple University Press, 1993
Subjects: Family--United States, Racially Mixed People--United States, Racism--United States, United States--Race Relations
...part so that they could become better wives and mothers; John Stuart Mill echoed this argument of Wollstonecrafts; Betty Friedan in The Second Stage called for social changes to accommodate womens abiding commitment to family, as well as to career...
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The Columbia Guide to America in the 1960s
Book by David Farber, Beth Bailey; Columbia University Press, 2001
Subjects: United States--History--1961-1969, United States--Social Conditions--1960-1980
...Democratic National Convention. Friedan, Betty Naomi b. 1921 With the publication of The Feminine Mystique in 1963, Friedan became a founding mother of mainstream...many American women. In 1966, Friedan helped to found the National Organization...
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"The Comfortable Concentration Camp": The Significance of Nazi Imagery in Betty Friedan's the Feminine Mystique (1963)
Journal article by Kirsten Fermaglich; American Jewish History, Vol. 91, 2003
Subjects: American Jews--History, American Jews--Social aspects, American culture--Criticism and interpretation, Friedan, Betty--Criticism and interpretation, Holocaust, 1933-1945--Influence, Holocaust, 1933-1945--Social aspects, Jews, American--History, Jews, American--Social aspects, The Feminine Mystique (Nonfiction work)--Criticism and interpretation
...The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan claimed that "the women...Dwight Macdonald. (18) Betty Friedan followed in this tradition...speeches, and memoirs, Betty Friedan has emphasized her personal...Illinois, in 1921 as Bettye Naomi Goldstein, Friedan was...
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A Mixed Record: Gender and Saskatchewan Social Democracy
Journal article by David McGrane; Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 42, 2008
Subjects: Affirmative action, Culture, Democracy, Equality, Feminism, Ideology, Opposition parties, Political activism, Provincial government, Research & development--R&D, Saskatchewan Canada
...feminism can be applied to a large swath of feminist thinkers from Mary Wollstonecraft and John Stuart Mill to Betty Friedan and Naomi Wolf.1 Despite the intellectual diversity within liberal feminism, a number of key characteristics of liberal...
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On the Politics of Being Jewish in a Multiracial State
Journal article by Karen Brodkin; Anthropologica, Vol. 45, 2003
Subjects: Jewish culture, New York City New York United States, Political participation
...made Jewish men so successful. Betty Friedan, author of the 1963 classic...Poem, New York: Shadow Press. Friedan, Betty 1963 The Feminine Mystique, New...with The Jewish Museum. Seidman, Naomi 1998 Fag-Hags and Bu-Jews...
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Cooperative Motherhood and Democratic Civic Culture in Postwar Suburbia, 1940-1965
Journal article by Robyn Muncy; Journal of Social History, Vol. 38, 2004
Subjects: Mothers--Research, Mothers--Social aspects, Nursery schools--History, Nursery schools--Research, Urban women--Research, Urban women--Social aspects
...Daniel Horowitz, Betty Friedan and the Making of The...165, 167, 172. 21. Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique...The Feminine Mystique, Friedan recognized that the earliest...1952, Chapters 2, 5; Naomi Wood, "Bannockburn...
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Feminism, Eros, and the Coming of Age
Journal article by Roberta Rubenstein; Frontiers - A Journal of Women's Studies, Vol. 22, 2001
Subjects: Aged women--Sexual behavior, Elderly women--Sexual behavior, Feminism--Demographic aspects, French, Marilyn--Authorship, Lessing, Doris--Authorship
...women. Among others, Betty Friedan has bemoaned the outworn...Press, 1998). (4.) Naomi Wolf, a "third-wave...Knopf, 1992, 6). Betty Friedan, The Fountain of Age...the same terrain that Friedan addresses in her argument...
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The Vindication of Humanae Vitae
Magazine article by Mary Eberstadt; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, August 2008
Subjects: Abortion, Birth control, Catholic Church--Ethical aspects, Catholics--Ethical aspects, Catholics--Interviews, Children of divorced parents--Ethical aspects, Children of divorced parents--Interviews, Contraceptives industry--Ethical aspects, Divorce, Humanae Vitae (Doctrinal work), Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholics--Ethical aspects, Roman Catholics--Interviews
...happened since 1968. From Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem to...through Susan Faludi and Naomi Wolf, feminist literature...religious antiquarian. It was Naomi Wolf--Third Wave feminist...emancipatory fallout. As Naomi Schaefer Riley noted in...
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Re-thinking History
Magazine article by Kimberly Bourgeois; University Affairs, Vol. 52, May 2011
Subjects: Canada, Feminism, History, Scientists, Sociology, Synnott, Anthony
...Yet certain feminists, such as Betty Friedan, cautioned against reverse sexism...Dr. Synnott does concede diat "Betty Friedan changed a little bit towards the...winning novel The Color Purple; and Naomi Wolf, audior of the Beauty Myth...
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How Serfdom Saved the Women's Movement: Dispatches from the Nanny Wars
Magazine article by Caitlin Flanagan; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 293, March 2004
...sucks; get a nanny. This was a truth that Naomi Wolf--feminist, Yalie, Rhodes scholar...Venezuelan. I am about the same age as Naomi Wolf, and we had children at about the...devolving almost entirely to me, for like Naomi, I had taken up a preordained place in...
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Managing Mothers and Mothering Managers
Magazine article by Pamela Haag; The Antioch Review, Vol. 64, Spring 2006
Subjects: Ambition--Analysis, Ambition--Forecasts and trends, Middle class values--Analysis
...trailblazing feminist Betty Friedan. She saw them not as...as downright crazed. Friedan exposed in the century...of the late 1960s that Friedan helped to inspire eroded...hyper-successful author Naomi Wolf. Wolf wrote a bestseller...
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Is There a Woman out There Who Likes Her Body
Magazine article by Yvonne Roberts; New Statesman, Vol. 129, May 1, 2000
Subjects: Body image--Psychological aspects, Surgery, Plastic--Psychological aspects, Women--Psychology and mental health
...1963, in The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan wrote prophetically of her white...those baby-boomer women to whom Friedan referred have moved on through middle...Tenyears ago, in The Beauty Myth, Naomi Wolf pointed out: "It is not lobbyists...
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newspaper articles on: Friedan Betty Naomi  - 2 results

 
 
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A VERY UNLIKELY FEMINIST; She Adores Micro-Minis and Killer Heels and Has Devoted Her Life to Telling Women How to Please Men in Bed. but, Says Lorraine Candy, Cosmo Legend Helen Gurley Brown Has Done More for REAL Women Than Any Bra-Burning Zealot; You Could Be a Feminist AND Appear Naked in Playboy
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 22, 2009
Subjects: Candy, Confectionery, Women
...claimed, be on our side? What about all those serious, politically active frontline feminists: Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Germaine Greer, Naomi Wolf, Katie Roiphe (theres more, but ironically I forget their names). They broke the boundaries...
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A VERY UNLIKELY FEMINIST; She Adores Micro-Minis and Killer Heels and Has Devoted Her Life to Telling Women How to Please Men in Bed. but, Says Lorraine Candy, Cosmo Legend Helen Gurley Brown Has Done More for REAL Women Than Any Bra-Burning Zealot
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 29, 2009
Subjects: British Broadcasting Corp., Broadcasting industry, Candy, Confectionery, Women
...claimed, be on our side? What about all those serious, politically active frontline feminists: Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Germaine Greer, Naomi Wolf, Katie Roiphe (theres more, but ironically I forget their names). They broke the boundaries...


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Friedan, Betty Naomi
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FRIEDAN, BETTY NAOMI 1921 2006, American social reformer...the modern feminist movement. In 1966 Friedan helped found the National Organization...schedules. In The Fountain of Age (1993) Friedan criticized "the age mystique" and societys...


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