New Feminism - campaign for political rights 1960s-92

what was New Feminism?

A new kind of feminism, which challenged the basis of women’s role in society

what was New Feminism influenced by?

Writers such as Betty Friedan

what were demands for political and social change underpinned by?

An ideology that had not been so apparent in previous women’s movement since the early pioneers, who had been influenced by the ideas of the French Revolution after 1789

What was a key text of feminism expressing women’s discontent with the Post-war period?

Mainly middle-class women - Betty’s book ‘The Feminine Mystique’

what ws published in 1963 by President Kennedy?

A study called ‘Report on African American Women’

Who worked on this survey? Who read this survey and what did they think?

Several highly educated women and it was read by the elite, who found the statistics of unequal pay, opportunities, political participation and status disturbing

what did the Republican ascendancy of Eisenhower years gave way to?

A reforming Democratic administration led by Kennedy

what did Kennedy’s ‘New Frontier’ give the impression of?

That change was needed after a long period of internal stagnation and that the USA needed modernisation