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 ...

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. What prods our feminist foremothers into the light of reappraisal? The condition of women in the world is a changing state of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Betty Friedan, whose manifesto "The Feminine Mystique" became a best-seller in the 1960s and laid the groundwork for the modern feminist movement, died Saturday, her birthday. She ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Betty’s father owned a jewelry store, but economic prosperity was not enough to protect them from discrimination. According to former Peoria Journal Star editor Barbara Mantz Drake, who interviewed ...

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 ...