Unit 10 SEMINAR

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Unit 10SEMINAR

• By
• Donn Mallari
• Per.4
• 3/26/12

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Prompt

• Compare and contrast the goals and achievements
  of the feminist movement in the period circa
  1850-1920 with those of the feminist movement in
  the period 1945 to the present.

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Background

• A significant transformation in the cold war era
  was the emancipation of women in Europe and North
  America.
• Set sail for future success of a new generation
  of feminist thinkers and womens military
  movement into the 1970s-1980s.
• Before the industrial revolution women and men of
  Europe usually married later and once they were
  married, had plenty of children (3-7) as 1/3 of
  the children made it to adulthood.
• As the industrial revolution raged on, people
  married earlier, death rates fell, and
  populations grew.

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Background Cont.

• Healthy habits wore on into the 1950-1960s, in
  the west women bore families and married earlier.
• Postwar baby boom made for larger families and
  rapid population growth from 1 to1.5 percent.
• 1960-1970 population growth stopped.
• Women were having there last babies by the age of
  26-27.
• Women had about 40 years of life after their
  children went off to kindergarten.
• Economic boom of 1950-1973 led for a strong
  demand of labor and resources, which in turn led
  to women leaving the home for a source of income.
  (Time after WWII)
• Big revolution since beforehand industries and
  jobs were run by men, and women's equality and
  emancipation prevailed.

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The Second Sex (1949)

• Written by French author and philosopher Simone
  de Beauvoir (1908-1986).
• Exposed to the real hard world as a young child.
• Analyzed the position of women within the works
  of existentialism.
• Argued that women were always free, but trapped
  by inflexible and limited conditions.
• Self assertion and action was the only way to
  escape the role of inferiority that men had
  created.
• Inspired future generations of women
  intellectuals.

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Feminist Movement

• The 1970s were the birth place of a large
  feminist movement, that demanded genuine sexual
  equality and promoting general interests of
  women.
• Three major reasons behind this
• 1. Ongoing demands for rights on the behalf of
  motherhood and work pay raised demands and
  conditions.
• 2. Women vanguards who influenced many other
  women to rethink the status quo and challenge it.
• 3. Following the civil rights movement, realized
  they had to band together in order to achieve
  influence.

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Feminist Movement cont.

• Betty Friedan (1924-2006) opened discussion of
  womens issues in the United States.
• Believed in American group action to form
  political solutions.
• As a mother of a family, she was aware of the
  conditions and pressures of family.
• Wrote The Feminine Mystique, which identified
  that the problem of womens rights was in
  identity.
• Women faced a problem called Sexism

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Feminist Movement cont.

• 1966 formed the National Organization of Woman
  (NOW) to account for womens rights.
• In 1967 has 700 members, and in 1974 it had over
  forty thousand members.
• Many other womens organizations followed.
• Wanted change in the laws for equality of women.
• Concentrated on gender and family laws, such as
  rights to divorce, legalized abortion, single
  mother needs, and protection from violence/rape.
• Led to revolutions in other groups such as
  gay/lesbians, and people with disabilities.

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Conclusion

• 1850-1920
• Women did not participate in labor.
• Usually were wives/mothers Watching their homes.
• Had about 3-7 children during her life time.
• Large discrimination towards women equality.
• Men did not believe that women could do well in
  the work place.

• 1945-Present
• More genuine reform movements for womens rights.
• Promotion of general womens interests and
  genuine equality.
• Feminist speakers/activists demanding for
  equality.
• Establishment of the (NOW) National Organization
  for Women.

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Propaganda

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