Betty Friedan

Examples of Betty Friedan in the following topics:

• The New Wave of Feminism

  • In 1963, writer and feminist Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique in which she contested the post-World War II belief that it was women’s destiny to marry and bear children.
  • Friedan’s book was a best-seller and began to raise the consciousness of many women who agreed that homemaking in the suburbs sapped them of their individualism and left them unsatisfied.
  • In 1966, the National Organization for Women (NOW) was formed by 28 women—among them Betty Friedan—and proceeded to set an agenda for the feminist movement.
  • National Organization for Women (NOW) founder and president Betty Friedan; NOW co-chair and Washington, D.C., lobbyist Barbara Ireton; and feminist attorney Marguerite Rawalt.
  • Betty Friedan, American feminist and writer, author of "The Feminine Mystique"

• The Women's Rights Movement

  • In 1963 Betty Friedan (), influenced by Simone De Beauvoir's book "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.
  • Betty Friedan, American feminist and writer, wrote the best selling book "The Feminist Mystique. " This book is widely credited with having begun second-wave feminism in the United States.

• Ideological Interest Groups

  • National Organization for Women (NOW) founder and president Betty Friedan; NOW co-chair and Washington, D.C., lobbyist Barbara Ireton; and feminist attorney Marguerite Rawalt.

• Second-Wave Feminism

  • Beauvoir's book influenced Betty Friedan, who in her 1963 bestselling book The Feminine Mystique explicitly objected to the mainstream media image of women, stating that placing women at home limited their possibilities, and wasted talent and potential.
  • In 1966, Friedan joined other women and men to found the National Organization for Women (NOW).

• Evaluating the Psychodynamic Approach to Personality

  • Feminist Betty Friedan referred to Freud's concept of penis envy as a purely social bias typical of the Victorian era, and showed how the concept played a key role in discrediting alternative notions of femininity in the early to mid twentieth century.

• The Transition to Peacetime

  • In 1963, Betty Friedan publisher her book The Feminine Mystique which strongly criticized the role of women during the postwar years and was a best-seller and a major catalyst of the women's liberation movement.

• Freudian Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality

  • Feminist Betty Friedan referred to Freud's concept of "penis envy" as a purely social bias typical of the Victorian era and showed how the concept played a key role in discrediting alternative notions of femininity in the early to mid-twentieth century.

• Objective vs. Critical vs. Subjective

  • Drawing on early Feminist writings by social advocates including but not limited to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Paul, Ida Wells Barnett, Betty Friedan, and sociological theorists including but not limited to Dorothy Smith, Joan Acker, and Patricia Yancey Martin, Feminist sociologists critiqued "objective" traditions as unrealistic and unscientific in practice.

• Scenario

  • Betty assigned a group project to her students.
  • Betty described the group assignment, students formed five teams of three students each.
  • Betty still spent time reviewing the groups' plans for potential problems.
  • Betty also discussed the project with each group before they started.
  • Betty asked each student to write a short paper to report his/her reflections about the project.

• Control

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  • Betty placed no restrictions on content, allowing students to choose to introduce their countries from their own perspectives.
  • Betty simply provided objective suggestions when she found problems.