Campaign for political rights 1960s-1992

How was a new kind of feminism influenced by writers such as Betty Friedan?

Her book was called The Feminist Mystique (1963) and expressed middle class women’s discontent with the post-war period

What were demands for political and social change underpinned by?

An ideology that was not so apparent in previous women’s movements

What was the ‘Report on American Women’?

A study published in 1963 commissioned by Kennedy

What. did the study point out?

It was worked on by 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 was Kennedy’s rule?

Democratic rather than republican

What was Kennedy’s ‘New Frontier’?

This gave the impression that change was needed after a long period of internal stagnation, and that the USA needed modernisation