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Goddess of the Hearth Betty Friedan, the feminist author whose book The Feminine Mystique ignited the women's rights movement, died last month at age 85. Friedan exploded the myth of the happily homebound suburban mother, whose claustrophobic world TIME portrayed in a June 20, 1960, cover story:
DIED. BETTY FRIEDAN, 85, icon of postwar American liberalism who wrote the 1963 best seller The Feminine Mystique, which explored the "sense of dissatisfaction" among midcentury women who "made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children," while secretly wondering, "Is this all...
Betty Friedan, who authored “The Feminine Mystique” and spearheaded the 1960s feminist movement died of congestive heart failure Saturday in Washington, D.C. It was her 85th birthday.
DIED. BETTY FRIEDAN, 85, icon of postwar American liberalism who wrote the 1963 best seller The Feminine Mystique, which explored the "sense of dissatisfaction" among midcentury women who "made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children," while secretly wondering, "Is this all...
RD: I didn?t see because I didn?t get off the boat. But I heard about it. Atallah Shabazz, Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz?s eldest daughter was on the boat as a guest and she called me when she got the note that said there would be protesters...