Feminism Unfinished Chapter Summaries

Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women's What is Feminism? Rosemary Radford Ruether Professor of Feminist Theology at Claremont Graduate University says that Feminism is the affirmation of the full humanity of women. As a man I was kind of skeptical about getting to this section on gender. I got even more worried when I found out the book that we had to read was about Feminism. I know that women have been oppressed and that they don’t get equal rights now, but while reading Feminism Unfinished I learned so much from all three of the of the authors of the book. More than sex equality: In chapter 1: Feminism after Suffrage by Dorothy Sue Cobble was told from the time period of the 1920’s t the 1960’s. In chapter 2: The Women's Liberation Movement by Linda Gordon was told from the time period of the 1960’s to the mid 1980’s. Finally in chapter 3: From a Mindset to a Movement: Feminism since 1990 by Astrid Henry was told …show more content…
These women were very knowing of the disadvantages, discrimination and limitations they had because of their sex. They worked so hard to try and improve themselves as workers and citizens. Cobble calls these women Social justice feminists because they did a lot of the things they did for themselves and other feminist groups. One really big topic of discussion during this chapter was the talk on the many different Women’s Rights legislatives that were around in the 1940’s such as the Equal Rights Movement and the smaller but still important Women’s Status Bill. Even though these things were thrown at women Cobble found a way to show that through women being Activist and supporting racial and economic justices that it gave them the skill to rethink the norm of women during that time and actually shows how by the 1960’s women had made a change in many thing that was moved past the small view of