HIS374H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cointelpro, Betty Friedan, Double Jeopardy
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Second-wave feminism, women"s liberation, and the case of the young lords. Postwar/ second-wave feminism as a diverse movement with multiple origins. Women in young lords party as relatively successful case of simultaneously struggling against racism and sexism. Young lords based their image and style off of the black panthers. Female workers and union organizers already mobilizing around unequal pay and. Double day by the end of the 1940s. Jfk"s 1961 presidential commission on the status of women largely a result of pressure from female labor activists. Jfk put in a lot of effort in order to win over women"s votes. In 1963 there is an equal pay act . It is a way for the state to recognize that women work. This law, however, does not really have any punishment and will go ignored for a while. Organizing for more economic security w/o directly challenging domestic ideal (the idea of women belonging in the home)
