AO3

Women’s Liberation Movement

• 1960s and 1970s

• ‘Second wave feminism’

• Concerned with changing the patriarchal power structures rather than seeking equality within them

• Linked to and born out of black civil rights movement/s; however ‘intersectional’ feminism doesn’t take hold as a concept until third wave

Miss America Protest 1968

• Hundreds of protestors outside event in Atlantic City

• Staged a fake crowning of a sheep outside the event

• Threw underwear and Playboy magazines in a bin

• Judges women on impossible standards of beauty

• Pageant objectifies women and thereby harms all women

• Hypocritical pageant - double standard of Madonna/whore fantasy

  • Demands women to be innocent and beautiful, while also satisfying men’s lust

• Racist - never has a black Miss America

• Opposed to the Vietnam war - felt pageant supported it by sending the Miss America winner to Vietnam to entertain the troops

Take back the night

• An organisation which dates back to the 1970s

• Campaigned against sexual violence against women

• Campaigned against pornography in 1978

• Exists in various forms and offshoots including

  • ‘Take back the night’

  • ‘Slutwal’k

• This slogan is directly referenced as being written on a banner held by Offred’s mother