Betty Friedan and Feminism in the USA

Docs en anglais | 2 pages | 26-06-2008 | Format : | Note : Non noté |

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Résumé

Biography of an heroic woman who did not take the mainstream path: Betty Friedan (February 4th 1921 - February 4th 2006), the American writer who was the forerunner of the American feminist movement.

Extract:

I chose the example of Betty Friedan because she died recently, on February 4th 2006. The emotion aroused by her death recalled us what her place in the American history of the twentieth century is. In the 1960s and 1970s marked by racial, political and sexual conflicts, she was one of the most striking personalities. Her positions on abortion, advertising, equality of wages, social promotion and maternity leave were regarded as shocking (...)

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