2. The Good Wife's Guide
From Housekeeping Monthly, 13 May, 1955.

3. Our Working Definition
Feminism
the conviction that women and men should be socially, politically and economically equal.

4. In what ways are men and women treated differently today?

5. Voting & Property Rights
1840 – 1920
First Wave of Feminism Women’s Suffrage
1960s—1970s
Second Wave of Feminism Women’s Liberation
“The Personal is Political!”

6. Context: 1960s - - > wide spread social challenges
African-American
Civil Rights Movements
Vietnam War and Protests
Hippies and other Counter-Cultures
Hispanic/Latino/Chicano
Native American

7. Dimensions of Women’s Liberation
Employment discrimination
Equal Pay, Access to Education, Hiring Practices,
Countering stigma of working women
Women’s Health & Safety
Reproductive Rights - - > Greater access to birth control and abortions
Education on domestic violence and sexual assault
Challenging Social Construction of Womanhood
The objectification of woman, essentialist ideas about women, traditional views on masculinity and femininity

8. Women’s Liberation Legislation + Court Rulings
Equal Pay Act, 1963 | exception for merit or seniority systems
Griswold v. Connecticut, 1965 | unconstitutional to ban contraceptives; implied right to privacy
Roe v. Wade, 1973 | unconstitutional to ban abortion; right to privacy guarantees abortion as a personal decision between women and doctor

9. Failed Pieces of Legislation
Equal Rights Amendment
First Proposed 1923
“Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”
Passed both houses of Congress in 1972, but was only ratified by 35 of the 38 required states.

10. Objectification:
an attitude that regards a person as a commodity or as an object for use, with little or no regard for a person's personality or sentience.

11. Protests at Miss America Pageant, 1968

13. Miss America Pageants . . . Rounds: Composite from earlier (30)
Lifestyle and Fitness in Swimsuit (20)
Evening Wear (20)
Talent (30)
On Stage Question (5%, [?])