Banner, Lois W. Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle. Alfred A. Knopf, 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...
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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)...
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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.
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