HIS 72B Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Civil Rights Act Of 1964, The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan
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Title 7 of the 1964 civil rights bill. Raised expectations and a relative deprivation theory. More women getting jobs, more women going to college -- yet they are still not making as much money or having the same professional opportunities as men. Susan douglas points to the contradictory messages that american women receive. Civil rights movement is the place we see feminism emerge. It provided the legal pull to combat gender discrimination (title 7) Many women who became feminists were active in the modern civil. Rights movement -- didn"t enter as feminists, but many became feminists. Provided a generation of women with a language to talk about. Radical feminism is a replication of black power discrimination. Critique the denial of equality and its connections to physical. Classic starting point, but friedan did not invent feminism. Chicana feminism emerging at the same time.
