AMH-2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 40: Lgbt Social Movements, Betty Friedan, Second-Wave Feminism
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Cultural conceptions: most of the media emphasizes women and portrays them as being in only certain spheres, mostly domestic, gays and lesbians are seen as a threat to the us, (cid:862)the ho(cid:373)ose(cid:454)uals(cid:863) It took until the 1970s for the scotus to strike down laws keeping unmarried women from purchasing contraceptives. Privacy concerns: state laws against cohabitation, sodomy, adultery, and miscegenation, florida law against cohabitation repealed april 2016. Target of sodomy laws was the gay community. Fl still had an anti-sodomy law until the early 2000s. Scotus ruled that anti sodomy laws are unconstitutional: adultery, miscegenation. Sex between people of 2 different races. First wave of feminism, late 1800s and early 1900s: suffrage movement. Second wave feminism, 1960s and 1970s: betty friedan, feminine mystique, the idea of how women should be was suffocating for women, they felt stuck in the household, now, national organization for women. Fighting for equal pay for equal work, legalizing abortion, ending discrimination in the workplace.
