Author

Books by Betty Friedan

Betty Friedan (1921–2006) was an American writer, feminist activist, and co-founder of the National Organization for Women. She studied psychology at Smith College and Berkeley before working as a journalist. The Feminine Mystique, published in 1963 when she was 42, was based partly on a survey she conducted of her Smith College classmates fifteen years after graduation. She later wrote It Changed My Life, The Second Stage, and The Fountain of Age, and remained an active voice in the women's movement until her death. She was controversial within feminism for some of her later positions on family and sexuality.