1961- JFK - designed to advise the President on issues conerning the status of women
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NEW YORK RADICAL WOMEN
precursor of Redstockings, group of young women who were part of the NL - tired of male-dominated CR + A-W movements - broke up 1967 due to ideological differences
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REDSTOCKINGS tactics
"speak-outs" - ZAP - Street theatre
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White House Task Force on Women’s Rights and Responsibilities
Nixon - to review the present status of women +then recommend what can be done to adavance their opps
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sterilisation rates 1973-6
over 3,400 sterilised
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1975 - credit cards
credit cards + loans for women without husbands permission
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1972 contraception
married women could no longer be denied contraception
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black women fem groups
Combahee River Collective (1974-80) - National Black Fem Organisation (1973) 0 TWWA (1970)-
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LAS HIJAS de CUAUHTEMOC
student chicana fem newspaper- focused on issues specific to Chicanas - class race, economic marginalisation
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Chicano Movement
1969/70 - conciousness rasiing, historical study of chicanas, polticial education for C - challenged male chauvinism - highlight how it served racism
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WARN
1974 - slower to emerge due to male suspcion + fears that fem would divide new deving American Indian movement
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WHY 2nd wave emergy?
more women attending college, marriage + domesticity failed to deliver fulfilment- icnreasing n. of women at work == incresed expectations and broadened horizons
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