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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: February 16, 2015
Caption:
Betty Friedan | Additional Description: This 1995 portrait of Betty Friedan by Alice Matzkin hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC.
"Betty Friedan's analysis of women's limited roles in American society, entitled The Feminine Mystique, was published in 1963. This controversial book galvanized the modern-day feminist movement and led to Friedan's co-founding the National Organization
for Women. Her focus on family values and the role
of partnership in marriage continued into the late 1990s as she encouraged the creation of a 'new paradigm ... one based on today's economic and
demographic realities.'
Artist Alice Matzkin arrived at Friedan's home in Washington, D.C., hoping to have one question answered: "What makes life worthwhile?" Seventy two photographs and fifteen minutes later, Friedan had entered a reflective state that inspired Matzkin's rendering of the feminist matriarch." -- National Portrait Gallery
Submitted: August 14, 2016, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p359639
File Size: 1.591 Megabytes
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