Featured Author: Betty Friedan – The New York Times Book Review

Betty Friedan, Who Ignited Cause in ‘Feminine Mystique,’ Dies at 85

By MARGALIT FOX
The feminist crusader touched off the contemporary women’s movement with her 1963 book and permanently transformed the American social fabric.
 Featured Author: Betty Friedan

REVIEWS OF BETTY FRIEDAN’S BOOKS

‘The Feminine Mystique’

By LUCY FREEMAN
“. . . [a] highly readable, provocative book. . . . Sweeping generalities, in which this book necessarily abounds, may hold a certain amount of truth but often obscure the deeper issues. . .”

‘The Second Stage’

Review by HERMA HILL KAY
“The underlying theme of this book — and it is a valid message — is that both men and women need to be free to discover their own ‘personhood.'”

‘Life So Far’

Review by WENDY STEINER
“To read this memoir is to grasp the labor and pain and sacrifices of one’s mother without necessarily loving her for her efforts.”
 First Chapter
 Other Books by Friedan: ‘It Changed My Life’ (1976) | ‘The Fountain of Age’ (1993)

ARTICLES ABOUT BETTY FRIEDAN

Back Home to Peoria — and a Sequel to ‘Feminine Mystique’

By ENID NEMY
Friedan discusses the state of the women’s movement on the occasion of her first extended return visit to the town where she grew up.

Women ‘Educated’ Out of Careers

NOW Convocation on ‘New Leadership’

Betty Friedan Ushers in a ‘Second Stage’

For Friedan, a Life on the Run

Trying to Dispel ‘The Mystique of Age,’ at 72

A Review of Two Betty Friedan Biographies

Beyond Mystique, a Frank Memoir

Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University

Betty Friedan in a photograph from “Life So Far,” apparently taken late in high school or early in college.