The
Problem with No Name/Making the Personal Political
Betty
Friedan: Feminine Mystique (1963)
--“the
problem lay buried"
--Women
“could desire no greater destiny than to glory in their own femininity,"
FREEDOM
SUMMER:
"we didn't come down here
to work as a maid this summer."
"Assumptions
of male superiority are as widespread and deeply rooted and every much as
crippling to the women as the assumptions of white superiority are to the
Negro."
--Presidential
Commission on the Status of Women
--Civil
Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
National
Organization for Women:
"to
take action to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of
American society now, exercising all privileges and responsibilities thereof in
truly equal partnership with men."
1967: 1000 members
1971: 15,000 members
LIBERAL
VS. RADICAL FEMINISM
Liberal
Feminism: NOW
Radical
Feminism:
SCUM
W.I.T.C.H.
Redstockings
Cell 16
AS A
RESULT OF THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT:
1.
increased participation of women in politics on all levels
2.
Title IX of Educational Amendments Acts of 1972, prohibited colleges from
discriminating on basis of sex, requiring schools to fund womens' sports at a
comparable level to mens' sports
3.
Roe v. Wade: 1973, struck down Texas and Georgia statutes outlawing abortion, saying that states could no longer
outlaw abortions in the first trimester
of pregnancy
4.
Equal Credit Opportunity Commission: in 1974, made it possible for women to get
credit in their own name
5.
ERA, which passed in Congress, and has to be seen as a victory in one sense,
because it did pass in Congress, even though it is not now an amendment, since
states did not ratify it in time. Why a victory? Military academies and other
military arenas thought it would pass so they began to make changes that helped
the position of women in the military
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