Women's Studies 2240F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique, Reproductive Rights

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2240F/G
• Professor: Lee

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Women"s studies 2240f foundation of feminist thought. Announcements: the rubric for the midterm has been posted to owl, the professor will be away during reading week (if you have questions, ask her by this. Friday: write-ups for presentations, due the week after your presentation, write on anything that interests you about the work, pick a point and analyze it, or talk about discussion that came up. It helps to back up your argument with quotations. After wwii, there was a boom because war is good for the economy. During the war, a lot of women who stayed in the u. s. took the jobs that men had previously done. Soldiers came back to find their jobs taken, and an ideology was built up to say that women wanted to be in the home and they should go back there to discover their femininity. Canada insists that we have health care, infrastructure improvements, a minimum wage, etc.