Banner, Lois W. Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle. Alfred A. Knopf, 2003, p. xii; 540 pp.
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Betty Friedan
Standard Name: Friedan, Betty
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Leonora Carrington | Having met such leaders of feminist activity in the 1970s as Gloria Orenstein
and Betty Friedan
, LC
developed working friendships with women who would help shape her public reputation at the end of the... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Simone de Beauvoir | SB
's many honours during her lifetime included the Sonning Prize for European Culture in 1983, and an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University
. There is a Simone de Beauvoir Institute
at Concordia University
in... |
| Literary responses | Margaret Mead | Her celebration of child-rearing (here and elsewhere) led Betty Friedan
to ascribe to her a major influence on the 1950s campaign to re-domesticate American women. |
| politics | Leonora Carrington | In New YorkLC
met and began a friendship with feminist art critic Gloria Orenstein
, who later championed her work in a 1974 Ms. magazine profile and elsewhere. At a rally with Orenstein, LC |
| Textual Features | Judith Kazantzis | The errant unicorn that she struggles to ride is the poetic impulse, and she says she entertains incompatible wishes: to ride it hard towards social goals, but also not to be labelled or compelled along... |
Timeline
19 February 1963
US feminist Betty Friedan
caused a furore by publishing The Feminine Mystique, an examination of the way that women's lives are cramped by socially accepted ideals of femininity.
30 June 1966
The US National Organization for Women
(NOW) was formed by delegates to the Third National Conference of the Commission on the Status of Women in Washington, DC.