25. The impact of New Feminism (women's civil rights in USA -social)
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- The impact of New Feminism (women's civil rights in USA -social)
- Failure to pass consolidated Equal Opportunities Amendment
- Feminist movement in 1980s focussed on key issues such as:
- Domestic violence and providing shelters for women; issues of sexual abuse within and outside marriage
- Protecting women from sexual harassment in the workplace
- Education for women in history and rights
- Protecting women from conservative attempts to restrict abortion and provide access to contraception
- Funding for education for young women and many social issues
- By 1990, only two women senators and limited consensus about aims and methods of what has been called 'second-wave feminism'
- Some women felt that insufficient attention had been given to sexist language, others that feminine sexuality had been downplayed in a sort of puritanism
- Others felt that there had been too much association with political left
- Women were divided
- New disagreements about abortion as well as nature and direction of feminism
- By now women better represented in politics
- E..g. seven female senators in Congress by 1993
- Women in position of authority no longer unusual
- Half of university graduates were women in 1986
- Causal sexism of 1950s and 1960s had come to be seen as remote as Victorian concern of women wearing trousers
- Much greater availability of contraception and decline of illegal abortions had amounted to revolution in women's lives
- Technology and much greater willingness by men to be part of home and child raising had meant change in family life undreamed of in 1865
- Period between 1942 and 1945
- Women were so important in nation and achievements were publically praised, and sense of adventure and enterprise welcomed
- May not have been entirely reconstructed in 1980s
- Full social implications of achievements of franchise may not yet be realised
- May not have been entirely reconstructed in 1980s
- Women were so important in nation and achievements were publically praised, and sense of adventure and enterprise welcomed
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