HIST 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Sex In Advertising, Reproductive Rights, Equal Rights Amendment
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Lecture 21 richard nixon, patty hearst, and america in the 1970"s: Women start being extremely vocal that they were being treated unfairly. Consciousness- raising meetings: women got together and talked about how they were being treated so unfairly. Sexualized image of women: playboy is really popular at the time sex sells. The personal is political saying is coined by women. Marriage, sex, and reproductive rights women want to be changed. Women start working full time because it is hard in this time to live off of one pay check. This made women start thinking that since they contribute to the household that they should make more decisions. Nearly half of married women have a job. 1972 congress approved the equal rights amendment. Roe vs. wade made it legal to get an abortion in the first trimester (1973) Founders of the black panthers huey newton and bobby seale. People started to wonder what the slogan means.
