Stephanie Coontz author of A Strange Stirring: the Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960’s joins today's show. Today marks the 50 th anniversary of Betty Friedan’s controversial ...

What prods our feminist foremothers into the light of reappraisal? The condition of women in the world is a changing state of affairs, except of course, depressingly, in all the ways it isn’t.

American women, then and now. The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in ...

Friedan’s Jewish identity at first took a backseat to her battle for women’s rights but eventually found a stage at the center of her public life, a new biography shows. (JTA) — When Betty Friedan ...

For decades, the American woman was faithful to pants. A few years ago she started flirting again with skirts. Now, almost a century after hemlines started rising off the floor, she is back in the ...

Almost a year before the 1963 publication of The Feminine Mystique—the zeitgeist-shattering book that would launch second-wave feminism and change the life of millions of women—author Betty Friedan ...

Betty’s father owned a jewelry store, but economic prosperity was not enough to protect them from discrimination. According to former Peoria Journal Star editor Barbara Mantz Drake, who interviewed ...

Washington, D.C. — On May 23 the Center for American Progress will host Gail Collins and Anna Quindlen—authors of the new introduction and afterword to the 50th anniversary edition of The Feminine ...

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 began and ended ...