(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 ...

Betty Friedan, author of The Feminine Mystique ... Moira Donegan lays bare the contradictions of Friedan’s legacy, her world-changing importance but also the way she sabotaged both herself ...

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 ...

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 ...