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Daniel Harry Friedan (born October 3, 1948) [1] is an American theoretical physicist and one of three children of the feminist author and activist Betty Friedan. [2] He is a professor at Rutgers University .
Betty Friedan (/ ˈ f r iː d ən, f r iː ˈ d æ n, f r ɪ-/; [1] February 4, 1921 – February 4, 2006) was an American feminist writer and activist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is often credited with sparking the second wave of American feminism in the 20th century.
Betty Friedan died of heart failure on her 85 th birthday, Feb. 4, 2006, at her home in Washington, D.C. This article originally appeared on Journal Star: Feminist pioneer and author Betty Friedan ...
The Feminine Mystique is a book by American author Betty Friedan, widely credited with sparking second-wave feminism in the United States. [2] First published by W. W. Norton on February 19, 1963, The Feminine Mystique became a bestseller, initially selling over a million copies.
Friedan contends that "first stage" of feminism, a movement intended to liberate women from their traditional role as only mothers and house-wives, was coming to an end with the deadline for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, and that it was time to take feminism to a new stage, which could better deal with the issues of a new generation of women.
Betty Friedan, a graduate of Peoria High school, was one of the early leaders of the feminist movement of the 1960s and 70s. Born in Peoria 100 years ago, Betty Friedan now has her own original ...
In 1965–68, she and Senator Maurine Neuberger co-chaired then-vice president Hubert Humphrey's task force on Women's Goals. [2]In 1966, she co-founded the National Organization for Women (NOW), and she was NOW president Betty Friedan's main lieutenant and director of operations in its earliest years.
On July 4, 1776, a group of American founders pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to found a new nation.