Betty Friedan (Betty Friedan)

Betty Friedan

Author/Feminist.   Wrote “The Feminine Mystique” which became a best seller in the 1960s and laid the groundwork for the start of the modern feminist movement.  She died at her home of congestive heart failure on her 85th birthday. (bio by: The Perplexed Historian)  Family links:  Parents:  Harry M. Goldstein (1881 – 1943)  Miriam Goldstein Horwitz Oberndorf (1898 – 1988)  Spouse:  Carl Friedan (1919 – 2005)* *Calculated relationship

Born

  • February, 04, 1921
  • USA

Died

  • February, 02, 2006
  • USA

Cemetery

  • Sag Harbor Jewish Cemetery
  • USA

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