"Borrowed Babies" runs Wednesday through Saturday night at Illinois State University's Westhoff Theatre. Read John D.

Did I ever tell you?” She hadn’t. As soon as she started to explain how Friedan’s book had impacted her and her closest ...

Where are you from? BETTY FRIEDAN: I was born and grew up in Peoria, Illinois, which you might say is the middle of the middle of America, what used to be a synonym almost: "hick," "hayseed" or ...

A Lavender Menace member took Friedan’s momentary shock as a chance to take the microphone and introduce the group to all the ...

The women’s movement is led by Jews … or at least it was in the ’70s. Betty Friedan, Bella Abzug, Gloria Steinem — they were all Jewish, and they’re all characters on FX’s new show ...

Celebrating Women's History Month with influential writers like Toni Morrison, Bell Hooks, Maya Angelou, and Sandra Cisneros.

(JTA) — When Betty Friedan published “The Feminine Mystique” in 1963, she set fire to a simmering discontent among millions of American women, blowing up the myth that feminine fulfillment ...

The women’s movement was hijacked and distorted by the sexual revolution. The first edition of Betty Friedan’s 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique was pro-family and pro-men. It made no mention ...

In a pivotal scene, she’s confronted by feminist author Betty Friedan, who wants to know why she is holding women back. The ...

The church’s ancient defense of women’s dignity proffered by St. Augustine doesn’t need modern ideologies.