(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 ...

Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disrupter by Rachel Shteir Yale University Press, 384 pp. Shteir’s book wrangles with the complex legacy of the mother of mid-20th-century feminism, and, by extension ...

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 ...

But, in 1963, they sparked a social revolution. After conducting a survey with her former classmates at Smith College, Friedan found that the majority of them were dissatisfied with life confined ...

The paradox of Betty Friedan is that her famous book inspired a movement, institutionalized as NOW, that Friedan did not know how to weld together very well, and yet thrives as an organization that, ...

Indeed, Leonard Bernstein was born three months after the publication of Strachey’s book, and the other three, Mel Brooks, Betty Friedan and ... make Mailer’s mixed legacy part of the Golden ...

According to former Peoria Journal Star editor Barbara Mantz Drake, who interviewed Friedan in 1999, the family wasn't allowed to join the Peoria Country Club and Betty couldn’t join a sorority ...

Betty Friedan was just a fiery radical with a bad temper. It’s convenient to believe this. But at a moment when many of the rights for women she gained are being overturned, it’s time to ...

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 ended ...