HIST 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan, Young Lords
14 Dec 2017
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The sexual revolution and the women"s movement feminism - equality between genders (gender and sex are two different things) All of a sudden it becomes respectable for women to work. Believed that the vote alone did not do enough to improve women"s social and economic status in society. Would not secure them in us electorate. Contradiction of who defended the us vs. who is treated that way. In wwii, a lot of nationalities are fighting together. *women may feel guilty if they make the choice to work. expectations vs. realities -> sexist ads. Glaring contradiction (brown v. board and massive resistance) *ideas of domestic containment. normalizing ideologies of who people and women are. People who are challenging spaces in different ways. We are organizing and will force this decision to take place. Women were dissatisfied with themselves, these norms. During wwi women were encouraged to work so that they could be a.
