HIST 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Port Huron Statement, Free Speech Movement, Betty Friedan
23 Mar 2016
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Today, we will discuss battles over vietnam . Battles over vietnam: parallel growth of security state and various countercultures - issues of power and liberation at core of debates. Huge domestic protests and debate: role and duties of government, role and duties of citizens, role and duties of america in world. Intellectual analysis of relationships between identity and social and political realms. Vietnam war as catalyst/accelerator- for this movement culture. Long history of women organizing around rights and equality issues. The feminine mystique 1963 by betty friedan- catalyst to second wave feminism . Consciousness-raising (about gender inequality), attention to structures, and how the. Impact on middle-class educated women who felt their experiences were similar to betty. Family decisions, mass media representation of women and the feminist critique. Galvanized a lot of women to think about how choices in their personal life were maybe not choices. Importance of feminists of color activism- intellectual basis. Importance of queer voices- also intellectual basis.
