Books by
Betty Friedan
Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique. New York, NY: W.W. Norton &
Company, Inc., 2001 (1963).
_____It
Changed My Life. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998 (1976).
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The Second Stage. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998 (1981).
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Beyond Gender: The New Politics of Work and Family. Washington, D.C.: The
Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1997.
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The Fountain of Age. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2006
(1993).
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My Life So Far. New York: Simon & Schuster: A Touchstone Book, 2000.
Betty Friedan Papers - Schlesinger Library
Friedan, Betty. “Through the Glass Darkly.”
Autobiographical Essay, 1937.
_____“The Scapegoat.” Friedan wrote this
short story in her senior year at Smith College. It is a fictionalized
account of the struggle with her Jewish identity during her first year at
Smith College.
_____“Smith 1942—Fifteen Years Later”
(1957). Friedan used this questionnaire to survey members of her
graduating class (1942) about their lives and attitudes. Her analysis of
the findings served as the catalyst that led to The Feminine Mystique.
Copies of the completed questionnaires, including Friedan’s, are available
on microfilm.
_____ "If One Generation Could Tell
Another." Smith Alumnae Quarterly, Winter 1961, 68-70 and "Who Knows What
Women Can Be?" Smith Alumnae Quarterly, Winter 1963, 3 pages. Both
articles are based on Friedan’s analysis of “Smith 1942—Fifteen Years
Later.”
_____”Learning the Score, We Know the Score”
and “Work and Write—a Highlander Project.” (1941). Friedan wrote these
commentaries during her summer internship at Highlander Folk School.
“High School Transcript.” Peoria, Illinois:
Peoria Public Schools, 1932-1938.
“College Transcript.” Northampton, MA: Smith
College, 1938-1942.
Lerner, Gerda. Feb. 6, 1963. “Letter to
Betty Friedan.” Lerner offers her critique of Friedan’s approach in The
Feminine Mystique.
Biographies
Juvenile Literature:
Blau,
Justin. Betty Friedan. Included in Series of American Women of
Achievement. New York, NY: Chelsea House Publishers, 1990.
Bohannon, Lisa Frederiksen. Woman’s Work: The Story of Betty Friedan.”
Greensboro, NC: Morgan Reynolds, 2004.
Sondra
Henry & Taitz, Emily. Betty Friedan: Fighter for Women's Rights. Hillside,
NJ: Enslow Publishers, Inc, 1990.
Meltzer, Milton, Betty Friedan: A Voice for Women’s Rights. New York, NY:
Viking Penguin Inc., 1985.
Academic Biographies:
Hennessee, Judith. Betty Friedan: Her Life. New York, NY: Viking,
Published by the Penguin Group, 1999.
Horowitz, Daniel. Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique.
Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000, (1998).
Oliver, Susan. Betty Friedan: The Personal Is Political. New York,
NY: Pearson/Longman, 2008.
Biographical Essays and Profiles
Bowlby, Rachel. "The Problem with No Name Rereading Friedan's the Feminine
Mystique." Feminist Review, September 1987, 61-75.
Butler
(AKA Oliver), Susan. "Betty Friedan." In Significant Contemporary
American Feminists; a Biographical Sourcebook, edited by Jennifer
Scanlon, 111-17. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999.
Cohen,
Marcia. "Chapter 5: If They Don't Like Me." In The Sisterhood: The
True Story of the Women Who Changed the World, 54-71. New York: Simon
& Schuster, 1988.
_____”Chapter 7: The Feminine Mystique.” In The Sisterhood: The True
Story of the Women Who Changed the World, 83-99. New York:
Simon & Schuster, 1988.
Meyer,
Donald. "Betty Friedan." In Portraits of American Women: From
Settlement to the Present, edited by GJ. Barkeen-Banfeild and
Catherine Clinton, 599-615. New York, 1991.
Moses,
Jennifer. "She Changed Our Lives: A Profile of Betty Friedan." Present
Tense 1988, 30.
Parini, Jay. “The Feminine Mystique.” In Promised Land: Thirteen Books
That Changed America. 319-341. New York, NY: Doubleday, 2008.
Sherman, Janann, ed. Interviews with Betty Friedan. Edited by
Douglas Brinkley and David Oshinsky, Conversations with Public
Intellectuals. Jackson, MI: University Press of Mississippi, 2002.
Stone, Amy. "Friedan at 55." Lilith, Fall 1976, 11.
General
Information – The Second Wave Feminist Movement
Berry,
Mary Frances. Why ERA Failed: Politics, Women's Rights, and the
Amending Process of the Constitution, 1986. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 1986.
Carabillo, Toni. The Feminist Chronicles, 1953-1993. Los Angeles:
Women's Graphics, 1993.
Chafe, William. The American Woman: Her Changing Social, Economic and
Political Roles, 1920-1970. New York: Oxford, 1972.
_____. Women and Equality: Changing Patterns in American Culture. New
York: Oxford Press, 1977.
Critchlow, Donald T., Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.
Davis,
Flora. Moving the Mountain: The Women's Movement in America since 1960. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999.
Echols, Alice. Shaky Ground: The Sixties and Its Aftershocks, New
York: Columbia University Press, 2002.
_____ Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1968-1975.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998.
Evans,
Sarah. M. Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the
Civil Rights Movement and the New Left. New York: Knopf, Vintage
Paperback, 1979.
_____ Tidal Wave: How Women Changed America at Century's End, New York:
The Free Press, 2003.
Faludi, Susan. Backlash: The Undeclared War against American Women,
New York: Crown, 1991.
Fe1sentha1, Carol. The Sweetheart of the Silent Majority: The Biography
of Phyllis Schlafly, Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1981.
Freeman, Estelle B. No Turning Back: The Histories of Feminism and the
Future of Women. New York: Ballantine Books, 2002.
Freeman, Jo, The Politics of Women's Liberation: A Case Study of an
Emerging Social Movement and Its Relationship to the Policy Process.
New York: McKay, 1975.
Hartman, Susan. The Home Front & Beyond: American Women in the
1940s. Boston, 1982.
_____From Margin to Mainstream: American Women and Politics since 1960 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989)
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"Women's Employment and the Domestic Ideal in the Early Cold War Years".
In Not June Cleaver; Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960,
edited by Joanne Meyerowitz. Philadelphia: Temple University
Press, 1994.
_____The Other Feminists: Activists in the Liberal Establishment.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
Jay,
Karla. Tales of The Lavender Menace: A Memoir of Liberation, New
York: Basic Books, 1999.
_____. A Generation Divided: The New Left, The New Right and the 1960s,
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
May,
Elaine Tyler. Homeward Bound; American Families in the Cold War Era. 2nd edition: Basic Books, 1999 (1988).
Meyerowitz, Joanne. "Beyond the Feminine Mystique: A Reassessment
of Postwar Mass Culture, 1946-1958." In Not June Cleaver: Women
and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960, edited by Joanne Meyerowitz,
229-62. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994.
Report
of the President's Commission on the Status of Women and Other
Publications of the Commission. Edited
by Margaret Mead and Frances Bagley New York: Scriber, 1965.
Rosen,
Ruth. The World Split Open, How the Modern Women's Movement Changed
America. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2006 (2000).
Sch1afly, Phyllis. The Power of the Positive Woman. New York,: Jove
Publications. 1978.
Tobias, Shelia. Faces of Feminism: An Activist's Reflections on the
Women's Movement. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997.
Umansky, Lauri. Motherhood Reconceived: Feminism and the Legacies of
the 1960's. New York: New York University Press, 1996.
Historical Documents and Oral History Projects
Baxandall, Rosalyn and Linda Gordon, eds., Dear Sisters: Dispatches
from the Women's Liberation Movement. New York: Basic Books, 2000.
DePlessix ,Rachel Blau and Ann Snitow, eds. The Feminist Memoir
Project. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1998.
Keetley, Dawn and John Pettegrew, eds., Public Women, Public Words: A
Documentary History of American Feminism, vol. 3, 1960 to the Present.
Madison: Madison House, 2002.
MacLean, Nancy, The American Women’s Movement, 1945-2000. Included
in The Bedford Series in History and Culture. Boston: Bedford/St.Martin’s,
2009.
Morgan, Robin, Sisterhood Is Powerful. New York: Vintage, 1970.
Watkins, Bonnie and Nina Tothchild, eds. In the Company of Women:
Voices from the Women's Movement. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press, 1997
Web-based Resources
“The
‘Second Wave’ and Beyond.” Women and Social Movements in the United
States, 1600 – 2000. Alexander Street Press.
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communication and research that brings together feminist thinkers,
scholars and activists, to analyze compelling questions about feminist
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