Betty Friedan
Noun
Meaning
United States feminist who founded a national organization for women (born in 1921)
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Examples
America,” in its fourth episode, re-creates a vivid example: a 1973 debate between Schlafly and feminist leader Betty Friedan at Illinois State University, when Friedan called Schlafly a witch and spat, “I’d like to burn you at the stake.”
Betty Friedan criticizes Freud and what she considered his Victorian view of women in The Feminine Mystique (1963).
Betty Friedan wrote in Allure magazine that "'The Beauty Myth' and the controversy it is eliciting could be a hopeful sign of a new surge of feminist consciousness."
I owe so much to Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan for talking and writing about how we should have equal rights and the right to equal pay.
When she was born, it was Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, and now she’s back in the past where women are second-class citizens.
“The Feminine Mystique” by Betty Friedan is first published by W.W. Norton & Co.