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Definition of Betty Friedan
1. Noun. United States feminist who founded a national organization for women (born in 1921).
Generic synonyms: Feminist, Libber, Women's Liberationist, Women's Rightist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Betty Friedan
Literary usage of Betty Friedan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Women's Colleges in the United States: History, Issues & Challenges by Irene Harwarth (1998)
"Congressional Quarterly, Editorial Research Reports on The Women 's Movement.
Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, Inc., 1973, p. 12. 9. Betty Friedan ..."
2. The Affairs of Women: A Modern Miscellany by Colin Bingham (2006)
"Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (1963) Mrs Friedan quotes a psychotherapist
as saying: "One of the major reasons, ironically, why so many women ..."
3. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"In 1981 or 1982 the cover ofa New York Times Magazine carried the headline “Betty
Friedan Critiques the Women's Movement.” You can see the reason for using ..."
4. What Society Does to Girls by Joyce Nicholson (1975)
"Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique, Penguin 1973. Written in 1963, this was
the first of the modern books on the subject. It not only draws attention to ..."
5. Relinking Life and Work: Toward a Better Future by Rhona Rapoport, Lotte Bailyn, Ford Foundation (1996)
"Betty Friedan illuminated the negative consequences ofthat presumption in her
1963 book, The Feminine Mystique. With the beginning of the modern Women's ..."
6. The Urban Condition: space, community, and self in the contemporary metropolis by Ghent Urban Studies Team (1999)
"By 1963, Betty Friedan could already score a bestseller with her provocative The
Feminine Mystique, which gave a voice to the isolation and growing ..."
7. What Holds Us Together: Social Cohesion in South Africa by David Chidester, Philip Dexter (2004)
"In The Second Stage (1981), Betty Friedan apologised for her previous anti-family
stance claiming that the feminism of the 1960s and 1970s was wrong to ..."
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