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Betty Friedan is the author of The Feminine Mystique, "now remembered mainly as a popular work of social criticism that called for major changes in the role of American women, the greater part of the book was in fact devoted to an investigation of their status and their life choices at the beginning of the 1960s and how these had changed since World War II." [1] She was born in Peoria, Illinois in 1921 to Jewish parents and in her young days was influenced by Marxism. She was a lifelong strong advocate of legal abortion and in 1969 co-founded NARAL with Lawrence Lader. .