![]() ![]() Nation, and Europe-highlighted issues of union organizing, anti-Semitism, and anti-fascism on which she would draw later when she fully engaged with politics.īorn February 4, 1921, in Peoria's Proctor Hospital, Bettye Naomi Goldstein spent the first seventeen-and-a-half years of her life in Illinois's second largest city. The backdrop of her adolescence-a series of events in Peoria, the She faced in school sharpened her eye, intensified her interest in books, honed her writing, and started to awaken her awareness of herself as a woman. The social and personal dynamics of the Goldstein household shaped her sense of herself as a daughter, sister, Jew, intellect, and woman. The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminismīettye Goldstein's childhood, youth, and adolescence in Peoria powerfully influenced her adult life. Betty Friedan And the Making of 'The Feminine Mystique' ![]()
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