WS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Simone De Beauvoir, The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan
14 Dec 2017
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Ws 100 - a: lecture: tuesday, september 26th: Second-wave feminism: liberal, radical and lesbian feminism (1966-mid 1970"s): 1950"s truman cold war policy of containment (1947) Attempt to contain the soviet threat of communism. Led to an unofficial policy of domestic containment as women were encouraged to take up the traditional domestic role in greater numbers to create strong citizens. 1960"s cultural revolution and civil rights movement. Roots in the 1950"s rock and roll, beatnik rebel culture. Flower children and hippies : unconventional dress, art and behaviour. Gave women experience in activism, networking and protesting. Wave was more organized, school of activism. Simone de beauvoir, the second sex (1949) One is not born a woman, but one becomes one . Women are socialized into traditional gender roles . At the head of social construction theory. Argued against the policy of domestic containment. Women were not happy being isolated in the home, forced back into the home after world war.
