(JTA) — When Betty Friedan published “The Feminine ... It was after this speech that Friedan revisited the role of Judaism in her work, turning her energies to fight antisemitism in the ...

Where are you from? BETTY FRIEDAN: I was born and grew up in Peoria, Illinois, which you might say is the middle of the middle of America, what used to be a synonym almost: "hick," "hayseed" or ...

Betty Friedan was a journalist who carried out research into how women felt about their lives in the early 1960s. She published her findings in a book called The Feminine Mystique (1963), which ...