Redstockings was a radical feminist movement started in the 1960s. In their proclamation, “Redstockings Manifesto,” women of the Redstockings movement call for women to realize and fight against the oppression of their class, and call on men to assist them in not only making men and women equal, but also releasing women from the male’s control. To begin, the Redstockings indicate that the oppression of women is not only present in the areas of employment and politics. Women are only viewed as domestic creatures; however hold no power even in this area. When they do not meet these domestic expectations, women are threatened with violence. This oppression was then blamed solely on men. So, to attain their freedom, women must expose the truth;
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The authors of “Redstockings Manifesto” define women’s freedom as being completely freed from male control. Women want to be viewed as more than just “sex objects, breeders, domestic servants, and cheap labor,” in private and in public. Freedom includes not only being called someone’s wife and a child’s mother, but being someone’s lawyer, someone’s physician. The Redstockings wish for women to have an identity separate from that of the men they work for or are married to. To maintain freedom, men must relinquish control almost completely, not just make women their “equals.” As long as men dominate, and women are frowned upon in particular aspects of American life, women are still …show more content…
According to Falwell, television, public schools, the feminist revolution, the homosexual revolution, and the Equal Rights Amendment, are all threats to moral value. Television has replaced family and public schools have rejected religion to impose humanistic ideology. America was founded with black being the scum of society, women being accepted only for their domestic duties, and homosexuals being outlawed. Hence why blacks fighting for equality, women being equal to men, and homosexuals gaining support from America, is immoral to Falwell. For America to be a righteous country again, Americans must return to their faith and prevent “immoral” citizens from impeding America’s progress
The authors of “Redstockings Manifesto” define women’s freedom as being completely freed from male control. Women want to be viewed as more than just “sex objects, breeders, domestic servants, and cheap labor,” in private and in public. Freedom includes not only being called someone’s wife and a child’s mother, but being someone’s lawyer, someone’s physician. The Redstockings wish for women to have an identity separate from that of the men they work for or are married to. To maintain freedom, men must relinquish control almost completely, not just make women their “equals.” As long as men dominate, and women are frowned upon in particular aspects of American life, women are still …show more content…
According to Falwell, television, public schools, the feminist revolution, the homosexual revolution, and the Equal Rights Amendment, are all threats to moral value. Television has replaced family and public schools have rejected religion to impose humanistic ideology. America was founded with black being the scum of society, women being accepted only for their domestic duties, and homosexuals being outlawed. Hence why blacks fighting for equality, women being equal to men, and homosexuals gaining support from America, is immoral to Falwell. For America to be a righteous country again, Americans must return to their faith and prevent “immoral” citizens from impeding America’s progress