The Women’s Movement – Wed 3/7
by admin - March 6th, 2012
The sixties set off cultural shock waves on many fronts, including gender roles and gender rules. We caught a glimpse of that at the end of Monday’s class when we looked at the protest staged by Women’s Liberation advocates at the 1968 Miss America pageant in Atlantic City.
For Wednesday, take a look at (and bring with you) the following essays in the HOT reader, on pp. 209-237: deHart, NOW, Morgan, Vasquez and Schlafly. Consider how these writers differ on womens’ roles and proper place in society. What might the women’s movement owe to the civil rights movement(s) we’ve already discussed? How might it have been different? Is there a single “women’s movement” today? Why or why not?
