Betty Friedan Activist and Novelist Who Campaigned for the Modern Feminist Movement

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BETTY Friedan, whose manifesto, The Feminine Mystique, laid the groundwork for the modern feminist movement, died on Saturday, her birthday. She was 85.

Few books have so profoundly changed so many lives as did Friedan's 1963 bestseller. Her assertion that a woman needed more than a husband and children was a radical break from the postwar era.

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Betty Friedan Activist and Novelist Who Campaigned for the Modern Feminist Movement

Independence for women was no joke, Friedan wrote. The feminine mystique was a phony deal sold to women that left them unfulfilled, suffering from "the problem that has no name" and seeking a solution in tranquillisers and psychoanalysis.

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