Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, published on Feb. 19, 1963, is considered one of the most influential non-fiction books of the 20th ...

BETTY FRIEDAN: So my children, yes, they grew up in Rockland County, and I wrote my book, The Feminine Mystique. And after I was fired for being pregnant, I was technically a housewife.

(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 ...

Though there were all kinds of forces building, and multiple voices advocating for change, Friedan’s book did seem to break ...

Betty Friedan was a journalist who carried out research into how women felt about their lives in the early 1960s. She published her findings in a book called The Feminine Mystique (1963), which ...

Betty Friedan died of congestive heart failure ... Friedan was the author of the revolutionary “Feminine Mystique” that persuaded women to seek their own identities, and also was co-founder of the ...