friedan, betty

Offers brief biographies of pioneering feminists Susan B. Anthony, Margaret Sanger, and Betty Friedan, presenting information on their roles in establishing key rights for women in the United States.

Profiles four different women who helped changed the lives of women in America during the 1960s. Betty Freidan protested women being judged by their appearance in the Miss America pageant, Ella Baker helped organize Freedom Schools for the teaching of African American history, Barbara Castle advocated for equal pay for women, and Mary Quant helped women dress for comfort rather than to appeal to men.

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

A biography of the author of "The feminine mystique" and founder of the National Organization for Women.

Presents a biography on twentieth-century women's rights activist, Betty Friedan and discusses her role as the outspoken leader of the early feminist movement in America during the 1960s that led to the formation of the National Organization for Women.

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.

A biography of the author of "The Feminine Mystique" who helped found the National Organization for Women in 1966.