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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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As Betty Friedan divined in "The Feminine Mystique," the commercial flattery of the housewife was really a treacherous betrayal‹female "purchasing power" in reality a "ghastly gift.
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Chrissie Tanner,
Homemaker and Mom
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The most valuable of such have to do with feminist dead-ends, like the idea of all men being the enemy-a notion toxic to the project of overthrowing sexism-or Betty Friedan's woefully inaccurate take on the joy of being a male breadwinner.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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Feminist leaders Betty Friedan and Eleanor Smeal say they will support independent presidential candidate John Anderson if President Carter does not campaign vigorously for ERA.
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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem fight for women's rights, Mathilde Krim battles the AIDS epidemic, and Margaret Atwood is one of the world's most outspoken advocates of literary freedom--Humanists all.
" Strictly speaking, the modern feminist movement began in the sixties with the appearance of Betty Friedan's The Feminist Mystique (1963), which began the attack on patriarchy through the notion of the autonomous woman.
Betty Friedan, the chairs of the various state Commissions on the Status of Women, and other feminists agreed to form a civil rights organization for women similar to the NAACP.
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Athena Mondale,
Spiritual Consultant
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Potential readings: Ann Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi ; Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique ; Todd Gitlin's The Sixties ; Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried ; Harvard Sitkoff's Struggle for Black Equality.
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Abu Kashir,
Gas Station Attendant
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Even some of Haber's closest colleagues bristled at the idea that such tomes as "Good Maine Food" or "The Black Family Reunion Cookbook," with its recipe for navy beans and pigs' tails, should share shelf space with Betty Friedan's papers or the records of the National Organization of Women.
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Adam Findley,
Professional Motivator
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3) Betty Friedan's groundbreaking book The Feminine Mystique was written not long after the close of WWII, and it deals with the frustration and depression that widely afflicted middle-class American homemakers in the fifties.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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In recognition of her work in the feminist trenches, Betty Friedan presented Sonia with the Veteran Feminists of America Medal of Honor at a November 1996 ceremony honoring the founders of NOW.
In November 1996, Betty Friedan presented her with the Veteran Feminists of America (VFA) Medal of Honor in recognition of her efforts to improve the status of women.
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Thomas Owens,
Police Officer
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In 1963, Goffman followed Asylum (1961) with Stigma, Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique was published, Richard Alpert (who became Ram Dass) was fired from Harvard with Timothy Leary for experimenting with LSD, Martin Luther King was in a civil rights march on Washington, President Kennedy said "We are confronted primarily with a moral issue.
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