HIS 72B Study Guide - Final Guide: Montgomery Bus Boycott, Chicana Feminism, Redstockings
Document Summary
Miss america protest (1978): ny radical feminists. Emphasis on the personal and the private. Emphasis on transforming the mindsets of people and the perceptions of women, beauty standards. Challenged the idea that women"s empowerment, economic and cultural mobility should be tied to their beauty and sexuality. Performances in public places, sometimes even direct action, bringing attention to standard beauty ideas that they want people to reconsider. Protesters would only speak to women reporters. Women journalists were typically assigned to women"s pages like beauty and cooking. News of the protest makes its way across the nation. Beat women: were predominantly middle class white women who rejected the life that they were told to pursue (wife/mother), became beat women by dating the real beats. Smashing: in all women"s colleges, smashing was girls pursuing other girls, leaving notes, bouquets of flowers, intense relationships. How women attempt to control and define their own sexuality.
