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Friedan
[ fri-dan ]
noun
- Betty (Naomi Gold路stein) [gohld, -steen], 1921鈥2006, U.S. women's-rights leader and writer.
Friedan
/ 藞蹿谤颈藧诲蓹苍 /
noun
- FriedanBetty19212006FUSPOLITICS: feministWRITING: writer Betty . 1921鈥2006, US feminist, founder and first president (1966鈥70) of the National Organization for Women. Her books include The Feminine Mystique (1963), The Second Stage (1982), and The Fountain of Life (1993)
Example Sentences
Colleen Dolan, an education expert with expertise in Stephen King film adaptations, tells Salon, 鈥淏***hery gets them out of the straightjacket of respectability, what Betty Friedan had called the 鈥榝eminine mystique.鈥
But when this year, after a lifetime of reading around it, I actually tucked in to Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique," I was shocked at how bracingly relevant this sacred text of second-wave feminism felt.
The 1963 publication of Betty Friedan鈥檚 鈥淭he Feminine Mystique鈥 helped pierce that myth and nudge the country into the second wave of American feminism.
Betty Friedan wrote that 鈥渉ousewifery expands to fill the time available,鈥 and the same is true of bad political news.
Betty Friedan鈥檚 鈥淭he Feminine Mystique鈥 was already a best seller in the mid-1960s when Ms. Scanzoni began writing for Eternity, an evangelical Christian magazine that often challenged conservative attitudes on social issues.
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