Friedan’s Jewish identity at first took a backseat to her battle for women’s rights but eventually found a stage at the center of her public life, a new biography shows. (JTA) — When Betty Friedan ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Betty Friedan is shown at Bradley University commencement in May 1991. PEORIA - As a leader in the women's rights movement of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What prods our feminist foremothers into the light of reappraisal? The condition of women in the world is a changing state of ...

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 ...

In her epoch-making The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan set the Sixties afire with a clarion call for feminist awakening. Not for nothing did Alvin Toffler enthuse that her bestselling book “pulled ...

Betty Friedan, a founding member of NOW (the National Organization of Women) and author of The Feminine Mystique, in 1970. Betty Friedan, a founding member of NOW (the National Organization of Women) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PEORIA – Composer Stephanie Ann Boyd knows she’s lucky to have been born at a time when women have more choices. Not that long ago ...

(JTA) — 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 ...

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 ...