The term female chauvinism has been adopted by critics of some types or aspects of feminism ; second-wave feminist Betty Friedan is a notable example.

* 2006 – Betty Friedan, American feminist ( b. 1921 )

Betty Friedan and other liberal feminists often see precisely the radicalism of radical feminism as potentially undermining the gains of the women's movement with polarizing rhetoric that invites backlash and hold that they overemphasize sexual politics at the expense of political reform.

O ' Leary was referring to the Lavender Menace, a description by second wave feminist Betty Friedan for attempts by members of the National Organization for Women ( NOW ) to distance themselves from the perception of NOW as a haven for lesbians.

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** Betty Friedan, American feminist ( died 2006 )

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* February 4 – Betty Friedan, feminist author, The Feminine Mystique ( died 2006 )

Gregory was an outspoken feminist, and in 1978 he joined Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Bella Abzug, Margaret Heckler, Barbara Mikulski, and original suffragists to lead the National ERA March for Ratification and Extension, a march down Pennsylvania Avenue to the United States Capitol of over 100, 000 on Women's Equality Day ( August 26 ), 1978 to demonstrate for a ratification deadline extension for the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution, and for the ratification of the ERA.

* Betty Friedan, American feminist and author of The Feminine Mystique

* 1963-" The Feminine Mystique " by Betty Friedan published, sparking the women's liberation movement

In this position, Ephron made a name for herself by taking on subjects as wide-ranging as Dorothy Schiff, her former boss and owner of the Post ; Betty Friedan, whom she chastised for pursuing a feud with Gloria Steinem ; and her alma mater Wellesley, which she said had turned out a generation of " docile " women.

Notable alumnae include Catharine MacKinnon, Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Julia Child, Madeleine L ' Engle, Sylvia Plath, Sherry Rehman, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Rochelle Lazarus, Laura D ' Andrea Tyson and Yolanda King.

* Betty Friedan, feminist, activist, author

Betty Friedan ( February 4, 1921 – February 4, 2006 ) was an American writer, activist, and feminist.

Allan Wolf, in The Mystique of Betty Friedan writes: “ She helped to change not only the thinking but the lives of many American women, but recent books throw into question the intellectual and personal sources of her work .” Although there have been some debates on Friedan ’ s work in The Feminine Mystique since its publication, there is no doubt that her work for equality for women was sincere and committed.

Judith Hennessee ( Betty Friedan: Her Life ) and Daniel Horowitz, a professor of American Studies at Smith College, have also written about Friedan.

In Betty Friedan: Feminist Blau writes about the personal and professional life of Friedan through the feminist movement.

Lisa Fredenksen Bohannon in Woman ’ s work: The story of Betty Friedan goes deep into Friedan ’ s personal life and writes about her relationship with her mother.

Sandra Henry and Emily Taitz ( Betty Friedan, Fighter for Woman ’ s Rights ) and Susan Taylor Boyd ( Betty Friedan: Voice of Woman ’ s Right, Advocates of Human Rights ), wrote biographies on Friedan ’ s life and works.

* 1963 – The publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique reawakens the Feminist Movement in the United States as women's organizations and consciousness raising groups spread.

* February 19 – The publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique launches the reawakening of the Women's Movement in the United States as women's organizations and consciousness-raising groups spread.

* Betty Friedan-The Feminine Mystique

Lorde criticised feminists of the 1960s, from the National Organization for Women to Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, for focusing on the particular experiences and values of white middle-class women.

" Rethinking Betty Friedan and The Feminine Mystique: Labor Union Radicalism and Feminism in Cold War America " American Quarterly, Volume 48, Number 1, March 1996, pp. 1 – 42

" Betty Friedan and the Making of " The Feminine Mystique ", University of Massachusetts Press, 1998, ISBN 1-55849-168-6

* Betty Friedan, Who Ignited Cause in ' Feminine Mystique ,' Dies at 85-The New York Times, February 5, 2006.

* Cheerless Fantasies, A Corrective Catalogue of Errors in Betty Friedan ’ s The Feminine Mystique

A new consciousness of the inequality of American women began sweeping the nation, starting with the 1963 publication of Betty Friedan's best-seller, The Feminine Mystique, which explained how many housewives felt trapped and unfulfilled, assaulted American culture for its creation of the notion that women could only find fulfillment through their roles as wives, mothers, and keepers of the home, and argued that women were just as able as men to do every type of job.

In the 2006 documentary, Don't Need You: The Herstory of Riot Grrrl, Hanna elaborates on the effect feminism had on her in childhood, recalling that her interest grew when her mother checked out a copy of Betty Friedan's " The Feminine Mystique " from the library.

Another important event of 1963 was the publication of Betty Friedan's influential book " The Feminine Mystique ", which is often cited as the founding moment of second-wave feminism.

In 1963 Betty Friedan, influenced by The Second Sex, wrote the bestselling book The Feminine Mystique in which she explicitly objected to the mainstream media image of women, stating that placing women at home limited their possibilities, and wasted talent and potential.

The movement is usually believed to have begun in 1963, when " Mother of the Movement " Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique, and President John F. Kennedy's Presidential Commission on the Status of Women released its report on gender inequality.

* Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique was published, became a best-seller, and laid the groundwork for the second-wave feminist movement in the U. S.

Richard Webster writes that the attack on " the psychoanalytic denigration of women " in The Second Sex helped to inspire subsequent feminist arguments against psychoanalysis, including those of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, Kate Millett's Sexual Politics, and Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch.

# The Feminine Mystique, by Betty Friedan

" Inspired by Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique, and other feminist classics from the 1960s, Relational-Cultural Theory proposes that " isolation is one of the most damaging human experiences and is best treated by reconnecting with other people ," and that a therapist should " foster an atmosphere of empathy and acceptance for the patient, even at the cost of the therapist ’ s neutrality ".

It benefited from the near-simultaneous availability of the birth-control pill and Betty Friedan's book The Feminine Mystique:

The Feminine Mystique is a nonfiction book by Betty Friedan first published in 1963.

She is best known for her role as Mystique in the X-Men films, and for her recurring role as Alexis Meade on the television series Ugly Betty.

Betty has left Clive, her daughter Victoria is now married to Martin, and Edward has an openly gay relationship with Gerry.