WOMS202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Phyllis Schlafly, Betty Friedan, Second-Wave Feminism

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WOMS202
• Professor: Cherrin Susan

Document Summary

Postwar settlements and the coming of human rights. The horrors of modern war and genocide. Un universal charter of human rights, 1948. 1960s: second wave feminism in the west. Because women are pushed back into the home (women are ditsy and are seen as people who consume) Betty friedan, the problem that has no name. Getting women to talk (middle class women whose husbands care for them, yet their lives feel empty) Was unable to get passed because some women actually began opposing it because they didn"t want extra rights. Reasonable people do want differences of treatment between men and women based on their obvious differences (having babies, strength differences) Great documents and organizations, but there is no way to really enforce. Tensions between women that want different types of rights (can women in the west really understand women in the south) Dealing with menstruation to be more independent.