1. What Accounts for the Resurgence of Feminism in the 1960s?
“It might seem that feminism caused the deep economic and social changes in American women’s lives, but it is more accurate to say that it resulted from them.”
TWE, 700

2. What Accounts for the Resurgence of Feminism in the 1960s?
Women’s changing lives
Work
Education
Child-bearing
The black freedom struggle

4. Mainstream/Liberal Feminism
Employment
Education
ERA
Reproductive freedom

5. The Equal Rights Amendment
“Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.”

6. How did women’s legal status change?
Equal Pay Act of 1963
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (EEOC)
affirmative action, 1967
Title IX, 1972

7. How did women’s legal status change?
Credit discrimination, 1974
Pregnancy discrimination, 1978
Supreme Court cases
Reed v Reed, 1971 and others
Roe v Wade, 1973
But failure to ratify ERA

8. Women’s Liberation The “personal is political” Violence against Women
Sexuality, Health and
Reproduction
Roe v. Wade

9. How was the movement for gay and lesbian rights connected to second-wave feminism?

10. How did activism of poor women and women of color challenge white, middle-class feminism?
National Welfare Rights Organization
Reproductive rights
Defining the oppressor(s)

11. The Feminist Art Movement

14. Global Feminism
International Decade for Women,