Women's Studies 2139A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Betty Friedan, Doris Anderson, Feminist Movement
29 Aug 2016
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The second wave women"s movement unit 12 winter 2016. The problem that has no name: betty friedan - retreat of women back into the home into the domestic sphere - many women found it restrictive other"s found it fine. Feminine mystique where they were doing everything they were told was right - working hard to raise their families - weren"t finding it fulfilling. Also charts the decline of women"s roles in public spheres. Emphasis on the importance of motherhood - found it stressful women to parent absolutely properly. Negative impacts: modern women the lost sex - women who wasn"t reconciled to a role - mother"s feelings toward herself are being projected onto her child. Someone to identify the satisfaction she was feeling because. Key for the second wave movement to have an outlet to discuss the books and issues at hand. Voice of women (vow) established feminist organization in canada 1962.
