Woman’s Liberation Movement
History Notes
1961 - 1978
The Feminist Movement:
- Movement supporting equailty between men and women in all aspects of life.
- 18th century
= Women become politicized as a result of French and Industiral Revoltuion.
- 19th century
= Fight for womans rights.
- First Wave…
= Suffragettes
= Was a member of militant women’s organizations in the early 20th century, who
fought for woman’s rights, like the right to vote. (women’s suffrage)
= Margaret Sanger opened first birth control clinic.
= Late 19th & early 20th century, suffragettes fought for the right to vote.
= At the end of ww2 women were exprected to go back to the roles they had
before.
= In the 1950s women were marginalized and had basically no rights. (not
allowed to vote, had to pay property taxes but had no say in the house, married
women had no rights, divorce and child custody laws favored men.)
= 1960s, women had limited jobs and their husbands still held all the power and
women were paid less and could not advance their jobs.
- Second wave…
= 1960 the Pill is approved.
= Book on the movement was published. (famous)
= NOW was formed in 1963, National Organization for Women.
= Betty friedan and others fought gender descrimination through courts and
legislatures.
, - AIMS
= On working within existing structures to win legal equality and right for women.
= No gender discrmination.
= Right to maternity leave.
= Child day care centers.
= Birth control.
= Equal education.
= Right to control their own bodies.
- METHODS
= Marches, legal letters, protests, petitions and court cases.
- SUCCESSES
= Gained access to birth control.
= Equal pay for equal work.
- FAILURES
= Black American women could not relate to whites.
= Movement was constricted.
Women’s Liberation Movement:
- In the seventies.
- A more informal grouping than NOW, they were more radical in their thinking.
- First women’s liberation conference held in Great Britain. (1970)
- British Women;s Libbers also protested.
= Against nuclear weapons and took practical actions such as starting homes for
bettered women and rape crisis centers in London. (1972)
- Supported the rights of emplyed women in a working Woman’s Charter drawn in
1974.
- AIMS
- It was more radical and is against patriarchy society.
- Wanted to end women’s oppression in a broader sense, attacking what they
called “patriachy”, or a male dominated society.
- Targeted violence against women.
- Opposed society;s ideal of the feminine beauty.
- Aimed to level the playing field in the work force, wanted equal pay and equal
opportunities.
- Wanted equal education and a change in male dominated curriculum in colleges.
- Wanted to give women more control and choices over her body.
= Demanded access to the pill and called for pro-choice with regards to abortion
issues.
- Wanted legal and finacial independance.
History Notes
1961 - 1978
The Feminist Movement:
- Movement supporting equailty between men and women in all aspects of life.
- 18th century
= Women become politicized as a result of French and Industiral Revoltuion.
- 19th century
= Fight for womans rights.
- First Wave…
= Suffragettes
= Was a member of militant women’s organizations in the early 20th century, who
fought for woman’s rights, like the right to vote. (women’s suffrage)
= Margaret Sanger opened first birth control clinic.
= Late 19th & early 20th century, suffragettes fought for the right to vote.
= At the end of ww2 women were exprected to go back to the roles they had
before.
= In the 1950s women were marginalized and had basically no rights. (not
allowed to vote, had to pay property taxes but had no say in the house, married
women had no rights, divorce and child custody laws favored men.)
= 1960s, women had limited jobs and their husbands still held all the power and
women were paid less and could not advance their jobs.
- Second wave…
= 1960 the Pill is approved.
= Book on the movement was published. (famous)
= NOW was formed in 1963, National Organization for Women.
= Betty friedan and others fought gender descrimination through courts and
legislatures.
, - AIMS
= On working within existing structures to win legal equality and right for women.
= No gender discrmination.
= Right to maternity leave.
= Child day care centers.
= Birth control.
= Equal education.
= Right to control their own bodies.
- METHODS
= Marches, legal letters, protests, petitions and court cases.
- SUCCESSES
= Gained access to birth control.
= Equal pay for equal work.
- FAILURES
= Black American women could not relate to whites.
= Movement was constricted.
Women’s Liberation Movement:
- In the seventies.
- A more informal grouping than NOW, they were more radical in their thinking.
- First women’s liberation conference held in Great Britain. (1970)
- British Women;s Libbers also protested.
= Against nuclear weapons and took practical actions such as starting homes for
bettered women and rape crisis centers in London. (1972)
- Supported the rights of emplyed women in a working Woman’s Charter drawn in
1974.
- AIMS
- It was more radical and is against patriarchy society.
- Wanted to end women’s oppression in a broader sense, attacking what they
called “patriachy”, or a male dominated society.
- Targeted violence against women.
- Opposed society;s ideal of the feminine beauty.
- Aimed to level the playing field in the work force, wanted equal pay and equal
opportunities.
- Wanted equal education and a change in male dominated curriculum in colleges.
- Wanted to give women more control and choices over her body.
= Demanded access to the pill and called for pro-choice with regards to abortion
issues.
- Wanted legal and finacial independance.
