AMS 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Playboy Bunny, Playboy Club, Equal Rights Amendment
19 Nov 2016
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Traditional politics: movement turns into something else, centered in cultural questions. Social roles; representation in the media: questions of identity, cultural life, treatment in society. Full inclusion in america: common goals, dedicated to the idea that gender (social expectations for women in society historically) were the product of social and cultural forces. Not natural: claiming full rights that all people should posses while at the same time recognizing difference based on sex. Sameness and difference = very important in this movement. Centered around voting rights and changing laws of women and property ownership. They had no property ownership as married women. Movement to get women the right to vote. Early 1960s focused on women working outside the home in the workplace. Felt trapped by the expectations in graduate school. Boyfriend convinced her to leave school, move to. Became stay at home mom in the suburbs with her kids, occasionally writing articles.
