AAS 392 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: This Bridge Called My Back, Betty Friedan, White Movement
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Betty friedan writes feminine mystique (about women being trapped in the home, need to work outside the home) This bridge called my back claims this isn"t enough for women of color. Birth control movement assumes that women have a right not to have kids, all women are being oppressed by the idea that they are forced to have kids. Women of color are forced to be sterilized rather being encouraged to have kids like white women. For black women, historical legacy of slavery persists. For women of color, focus is more on having the freedom to have children of their own, family isn"t as much a source of oppression. Writing from women of color feminists, differences from interests of white women. With exclusion acts, chinese women could not come to the us (with exception of merchant"s wives and prostitutes) Asian americans don"t admit to themselves that they are oppressed.
