2. MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE The Second Wave of Feminism
LEARNING INTENTION: Define the second wave of feminism and outline the perspectives of three key second wave feminists

3. Defining the second wave of feminism…
RECAPPING: Feminism strives for political, social and economic equality between the sexes
RECAPPING: Feminism involves organised activities on behalf of women’s rights and interests
RAISED AWARENESS around de facto inequalities
INCREASED DEBATE AND CHALLENGED gender roles in the work place
INCREASED DEBATE around sexuality
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INCREASED DEBATE AND CHALLENGED roles in the family
RAISED AWARENESS about reproductive rights
CHALLENGED official legal inequialities
BEGAN:
United States in the early 1960s and spread throughout the Western World

4. Social Forces bringing about the Second Wave of Feminism

5. The Second World War Women played a vital part in both world wars
Many women found that the advances they had made were greatly reduced when the soldiers returned from fighting abroad
With so many men out fighting, women were needed to work on the land and in factories: traditionally male dominated positions
Pay was significantly less than males got during peace time

6. The Second World War
Women’s Voluntary Service (WVS) in Britain had one million members by 1943
Mainly older women as younger women were needed in factories and on the land
Did whatever was needed:
Aided people who had lost homes
collected scrap metal
knitted for service men
provided tea and refreshments

7. Increased female involvement in the Work Force
‘In 1921 only 9.2 percent of women in the paid workforce were married; the figure in 1970 was over fifty-three percent’ (Evans et.al 2006:176).
BUT WHY?
Booming post World War II economy
More jobs available to women
Increased birth control
This challenged the old belief that a woman’s place was in the home

8. The need for organisation
With opportunities opening up for women, many felt organisation was needed
BUT WHY?
To educate women about their options
To ensure they were treated with respect in the workplace
To ensure they achieved equality and fairness in all aspects of working life
Various feminist thinkers sought to make this happen:
Simone de Beauvior, Betty Friedan, Germaine Greer

9. Building the second wave of feminism INFLUENTIAL WOMEN

10. Building the second wave of feminism Simone de Beauvior: A pioneering feminist
Published Le Deuxiéme Sexe (The Second Sex) in 1949
Explored how women had been oppressed by patriarchy
Existentialist philosophy: One is not born a women but becomes one through social experience

11. Building the second wave of feminism Simone de Beauvior: A pioneering feminist
Argued that women are made to feel that the male ideal is one they should aspire to
Women are made to feel that being a women was to lack something
Argued women should be seen as a separate identity deserving equal recognition and status
Have the right to exercise their own choices in developing their identity

12. Building the second wave of feminism Betty Friedan: A pioneering feminist
Was fired from her job as a union newspaper journalist in 1952 for being pregnant
In consequent freelance work, become angry of injustices experienced by women in the workforce

13. Building the second wave of feminism Betty Friedan: A pioneering feminist
1957 study: Explored lost opportunities of women who had children. Most return to the domestic sphere, regretting it
Nobody wished to publish her work
From this study, she went onto write ‘The Feminine mystique’ which had a powerful political impact

14. Building the second wave of feminism Germaine Greer: A pioneering feminist
Influential Australian feminist
The Female Eunuch (1970), Sex and Destiny: The politics of Human Fertility (1984)
Argued that traditional western social roles of women (e.g: house maker, mother, care giver) repressed the development of their identity

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Betty Friedan was a significant theorist that influenced the rise of the second wave of feminism. She asserted that women are in the habit of being oppressed by men and must realise they need to change this. She argues that ‘[m]en are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves’ (Friedan 1957). Friedan suggests women need to see themselves as deserving equality, and consequently, society will benefit.

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‘One is not born a woman, but becomes one’ (De Beauvior 1949).