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47 Cards in this Set
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The film Tying the Knot compares discrimination against same sex marriage to??
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anti-miscegenation laws (banning interracial marriage)
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Mickie and her deceased partner??
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Lois in Florida, both cops
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Sam and his deceased partner ??
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Earl in Oklahoma (farmland issues)
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Rosie the Riviter
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symbol for working women outside the home
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what influenced the feminine mystique?
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WWII, Saturday Evening Post, Newspapers
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what influenced women in the 1960's to go to college??
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their mothers, their desire, activist
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penis envy??
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lead many women to reject the passivity that women needed to reach true sexual fulfillment.
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Little Boxes song? relevance
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Mother's Little Helper song? relevance?
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Betty Friedan's solution to the problems of housewives??
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1962 Saturday Evening post?
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reported that women are submissive and what a good wife should do, and how being a house wife should be her profession.
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The Post pointed out what imperfections??
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They don't get praised from their husbands on their house work, and what would women do in the "empty years" once kids were grown up.
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Basic message of TFM, end of Ch. 1??
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under the surface of a housewife, is an insecure, self doubt and unhappy woman
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Ch. 2 quote, significance??
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At the end of the day, a house wife wonders if the only thing that will consist in her life is chores, kids, and housework.
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societal concerns about men in mid-20th century?
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That men must be the masters of their family and wife, women had no say
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"Remember the Ladies" song?
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from the letters of Abigail Adams
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Activist Susan B. Anthony?
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not married, wanted her freedom, traveled, made speeches
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Activist Elizabeth Stantlon?
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supportive of her husband, had many kids, husband was an activist against slavery
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Areas or Activisim?
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Temperance, divorce rights, co-education, married women's poverty rights, dress reform, equal pay for equal work, custody right for mothers, voting rights.
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Solitude of Self speech?
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Elizabeth Santon wrote it, about the struggle for women's right
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Momism?
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over protective smothering mom
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1920s-1940s
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lost of activism momentum
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staying home mom criticism during WWII??
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hostility bc it gave women to much moral authority in the home
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time period with divorce rate?
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between 1920-1940
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"All About Eve" message?
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puts a marriage in front of a successful career
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typical attitudes about working wives in 1950??
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working wives were more acceptable as long as the man agreed/ more girls completed high school and went to college
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Talcott Parsons view on family life??
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men were "instrumental role" earning the family living, and women played "expressive" role providing emotional support to the age earner.
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housewife syndrome?
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how a wife could change how she feels to make herself better for the family. treatment: analysis, medication, electro shock therapy
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Sexual Sell?
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is an idea that a certain sex role can lead to sales
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women’s realizations after reading The Feminine Mystique??
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fwfewecnejncej
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Ruth Rosens Research about girls responses to their moms lives??
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women who grew up in 50s-60's saw their mothers as negative role models; the people they did not want to be
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findings and significance of the research of Daniel Horowitz ??
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found out she didn't know as much as she said she did
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group of women mainly targeted by Friedan in The Feminine Mystique?/
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the problems of middle class housewives, ignored working class, and minority women
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mystiques of today—what they are and how they operate??
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"the hottie" having to look good and having certain clothes, "supermom" putting kids before self, "career" the only thing that matters is having a good job.
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NOW
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national organazation for women
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PHT
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putting husband through
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Mirra Komarovsky??
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found that less educated women were more happy staying at home, then more educated women
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~ why Friedan didn’t acknowledge her secretary Pat Aleskovsky in The Feminine Mystique??
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bc Pats husband was a suspected communist at a public HUAC hearing,
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what Betty Friedan had not anticipated about working class women’s work??
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she didn't anticipate intangible rewards of unskilled work( confidence, independence, interaction)
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what was Levittown and what was its significance after the war?
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the town where all the young couples lived, cheap housing in Long Island, quick and cheap housing
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Little Boxes Song??
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talking about Levittown, all the houses looked the same like little boxes
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what Friedan meant by “the feminine mystique,” and the image shown in class to illustrate it??
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she dressed up in class as a home maker
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try to keep information from this wave of the women’s movement distinct in your mind from the 2nd wave in the 1960s and 1970s that we talked about (the issues were different)??
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1st wave, not allowed to vote. 2nd wave trying to get equal rights, equal pay, and divorce rights
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why women activists during the 1950s felt the need to work on women’s issues from behind the scenes??
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bc feminism was considered part of communism, and didn't want to be associated with that, therefore went behind scenes
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HUAC
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House Un-American Activities Committee
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common differences in the meaning of college for white female college students & African American female college students??
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white college students went to find husbands, black women went for careers and job, then to worry about marriage.
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three-fold commitment?
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career, family, social movements
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