| Feminism Pioneer Betty Friedan Dies at 85 ^ |
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| Posted by no dems On News/Activism ^ 02/04/2006 10:53:10 PM EST · 41 replies · 837+ views The Free Lance - Star ^ | 2-4-06 | Hillel Italie Betty Friedan, whose manifesto "The Feminine Mystique" helped shatter the cozy suburban ideal of the post-World War II era and laid the groundwork for the modern feminist movement, died Saturday, her birthday. She was 85. |
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| Feminist Author Betty Friedan Dies at 85 ^ |
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| Posted by GeneD On News/Activism ^ 02/04/2006 4:10:18 PM EST · 250 replies · 5,118+ views AP via Yahoo! News ^ | 02/04/2006 WASHINGTON - Betty Friedan, whose manifesto "The Feminine Mystique" became a best seller in the 1960s and laid the groundwork for the modern feminist movement, died Saturday, her birthday. She was 85. Friedan died at her home of congestive heart failure, according to a cousin, Emily Bazelon. Friedan's assertion in her 1963 best seller that having a husband and babies was not everything and that women should aspire to separate identities as individuals, was highly unusual, if not revolutionary, just after the baby and suburban booms of the Eisenhower era. The feminine mystique, she said, was a phony bill of... |
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Thanks for the links, I knew other threads had been started, but I wanted to post the obit from the new york times. They also seemed to miss the fact that she was a die hard commie and never mothered her kids.
The bit about her being a battle ax of a wife was a nod to the truth, but forgetting her roots in communist political ideology, which wafted like a stink through everything she wrote....just the New York Times being the New York Times...
Now that she is dead, I'm sure we'll get some interesting factoids from the people who really knew her.
ANyone ever notice that if you say Bella Abzugs name real fast it sounds like Beelzebub???
Jenny