THE PROBLEM WITH NO NAME

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." (SNCC position paper)

--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 men's sports(resulted in an increase of 560% at the college level and 990% in high schools, since 1972);

         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.