13. The Significance of radical feminism (1960s-70s)
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- The Significance of radical feminism (1960s-70s)
- New type of 'sexual politics'
- Had roots in political activism in favour of AA civil rights by radical student groups and also political protests about war in Vietnam
- Alliances between groups problematic (between women issues and other civil rights issues)
- Veteran civil rights campaigner Frederick Douglass rejected linking women's rights for his fellow AAs in 1868, and black activists of 1960s did not always see role for women
- One AA leader made made outrageous comment: 'The only position for women in the SNCC is prone'
- Protests, writings and meetings against sexism did not take form of organised movement like many of ones considered to be so
- General attitude
- 'conscious raising'
- Feminists saw as political activity but not of conventional kind
- Small groups of women would meet to discuss position of women, sexual relations, etc.
- Made women of 'unequal power relationships'
- Arguably unimportant as women did not have the power for change but did have the power of protest
- Made women of 'unequal power relationships'
- Manifested, as defined by feminist writer and activist Kate Millet wrote in influential book called 'Sexual Politics' (1970)
- Manifested in equality of opportunity
- Her view was that 'every avenue of power is entirely in male hands'
- Given this is some 60 yrs after 1920 amendment, there was some political disillusionment with conventional means of attempting to gain political influence
- Lack of political equality was mirrored in economic equality
- Female wages on average 63% of men's in 1965
- By time of 1970s agitation, this had fallen to 57% (1973)
- Day-care centres were not adequate for number of working mothers
- No tax relief for children until 1977
- Already well established as support for women in UK
- New type of 'sexual politics'
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