Betty Friedan (born 1921) is a women's rights activist, author of The Feminine Mystique, and a founding member of the National Organization for Women, the National Abortion Rights Action League, and the National Women's Political Caucus. Betty Friedan ap...

With the publication of The Feminine Mystique (1963) Betty Friedan helped launch the second wave of the women's movement in the United States. Led by what she calls her "inner Geiger counter," she pioneered the investigation into the difference between t...

THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE Betty Friedan PUBLISHER, 1963 Writer, feminist and social psychologist Betty Friedan was one of the mothers of modern feminism. She helped establish the National Organization for Women in 1966 and was its first president. She led the National Strike for...

Elements of Style STEPFORD WIVES-WORTHY OUTFITS INVADE THE STREETS OF THE EAST VILLAGE "These are absolutely the dresses those bitches would wear!" giggles Linda St. John, proprietress of D.L. CERNEY at 13 East 7th Street, pointing to a rack of cotton jacquard...

SISTERHOOD, INTERRUPTED: FROM RADICAL WOMEN TO GRRLS GONE WILDBy Deborah Siegel Palgrave Macmillan, 170 pages, $14.95Review By Linda Hirshman I’m having a very bad time with Deborah Siegel’s very good book, Sisterhood, Interrupted, about how modern feminism has fared across the generational divide. It’s a...

"Something is very wrong with the way American women are trying to live their lives," the late Betty Friedan wrote in "The Feminine Mystique," her groundbreaking 1963 book attacking the idea that a husband and children were all a woman needed for fulfillment.That book effectively...

Compares female characters in The Darwin Reader, Antony and Cleopatra, and The Iliad. Describes the power and influence that female characters hold over male characters in each literary work.