SOSC 3130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Marxist Feminism, Sexual Assault, Consciousness Raising
20 Apr 2016
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Tumultuous period with currents of protest arising from anti-vietnam war resisters; the environmentalists; civil rights; new left and labour (may 1968 general strike) and women. Women treated unequally in political movements led to discontent; daughters of suburban middle class expressed their mothers frustrations. Private issues (often related to the home) are political and need to be addressed in the public realm. Sexual assault, domestic violence, sexual harassment and housework were. Conscious that they were the second wave of feminists after the women who demanded the right to vote (suffrage, access for women to public world, granting women access to professions, etc was first movement) Second wave came in 1960s and 70s lot of debate about why the women"s movement surfaced in the 60s and 70s. One reason: tenor of the times (very tumultuous time during the 60s and. 70s) was a time of idealism and there were currents of protests: series of social movements of which there are remnants.
