Friedan, Betty

A collection of interviews in which writer Betty Friedan discusses her political, religious, and ethical views.

Suggests aging is a beginning of a new vitality of life, a time to grow and try new pursuits.

Analyzes the changing role and status of women along with the implications of the evolving women's movement.

Betty Friedan reflects on her own life, from her lonely childhood to the founding of NOW. While chronicling the secret underground of women in Washington in the early sixties, she recounts the political infighting and dirty tricks that occurred within the movement of NOW. Also includes information about her twenty-two marriage to an advertising entrepreneur, which deteriorated into physical abuse.

Presents a reissue of the 1963 text which sparked the feminist movement through its analysis of the changing role and status of women, and includes an introduction by author Anna Quindlen in which she discusses the influence of the book on her personal history and society as a whole.

Analyzes the changing role and status of women along with the implications of the evolving women's movement.