Betty Friedan

My grandmother, Sarah Nowak (nee Choate), was only 19 years old when she married her first husband Joe Mike McKinney in 1958. Joe Mike was an engineering student at Texas Tech in Lubbock, Texas, so Sarah dropped out of community college, where she was previously enrolled, and worked as a secretary to help pay for his tuition. Although women did not have careers, it was not uncommon for them to work while their husbands were in college. “It was common in our day for women to help their husbands…

recent years, the way in which it can be interpreted has been an essential target of debate. Right before the emergence of third wave feminism, second wave feminism spearheaded a radical liberation movement in the 1970s. Well-known authors like Betty Friedan played a key role…

Gloria Steinem Gloria Marie Steinem is an American feminist, journalist, and social and political and social activist who accomplished many things throughout her lifetime. Gloria became nationally recognized for her leadership in the “second-wave feminist movement” during the late 60s and early 70s. She began her career for New York magazine as a columnist before becoming a founder of Ms. magazine, a publication dedicated to women’s rights and concerns. Over the course of her life, Steinem…

movements had a hard time living through the 1960s. This frustration led to the development of the Ku Klux Klan against the CR movement and the STOP ERA (Equal Rights Amendment, which was advocated by the National Organization of Women & led by Betty Friedan at the time) campaign led by Phyllis Schlafly. Overall, minority movements played a minor yet integral part in creating difficulty during the…

and please their husband. Women were not given the opportunity to have careers of their own or to pursue any of their dreams. However in 1963, women began to see things differently, and began to realize that they could be more than a housewife. Betty Friedan played a huge role in this by publishing her highly influential book “The Feminine Mystique.” This book described the dissatisfaction felt by women nationwide, due to the role society told them to fulfill. This was really the first time…

Liberation Movement, approached feminism by examining oppression from every aspect of a woman’s life. The Liberation movement had its seeds in the earlier movement. However, President John F. Kennedy 's 1961 commission on the status of women, Betty Friedan’s bestseller The Feminine Mystique, and the FDA…

preference, class, and age” (Lorde 116). Not only did the feminist movement in this time exclude women of color and queer women, but too often they contributed to their oppressions. Mainstream feminism was extremely homophobic throughout this period. Betty Freidan, author of The Feminine Mystique, was celebrated as a feminist icon. Her ideas, however, were damaging to the way the feminist movement treated queer women. She…

of social revolution (Doc. F). Malcolm X’s methods were proved wrong when MLK’s successful bus boycott, lunch sit-ins, and marches made humongous strides in the right direction. The feminist movement began to spring up with Feminist Mystique by Betty Friedan in 1963, which expressed women’s thoughts of dissatisfaction with their lives in the home, but this movement did not fully emerge until the 1970s (Doc. G). But, the biggest social piece of this decade was protesting and resistance. Young…

How have cultural and economic factors influenced the dating world? In Beth Bailey’s book From Front Porch to Back Seat, Bailey discusses the “private” world of dating, and its public influences. Additionally, she discusses how dating trends have shifted throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as a result of these factors. These factors have reached beyond the dating shifts that Bailey discusses, and have influenced current dating trends as well. In the early 1900s, the idea of…

In January of 1973 the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Roe in the landmark case Roe v. Wade, the case of a single pregnant woman who challenged the constitutionality of the state of Texas’s criminal abortion laws. Through examination of evidence and input that led to this outcome, we seek to determine why the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Roe. Though the Supreme Court cited precedent and unconstitutionality in order to justify Roe’s victory in the case, non-institutional actors such as public…