Week of April 16, Monday Lecture

 

I. The Women's Movement

A. SEPARATE SPHERES: The Organization Man and Suburban Housewife

  1. 1950s Ideal Womanhood
    "How to be the perfect wife"
  2. "The Happy Homemaker"
  3. "The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit"

B. LIMITATIONS OF DOMESTIC IDEOLOGY

C. THE REALITY OF WOMENÕS LIVES VS. ÒTHE FEMININE MYSTIQUEÓ

D. GROUNDWORK FOR CHANGE: 1950s and 1960s

II. THE POLITICS OF WOMENÕS RIGHTS
A. KENNEDYÕS PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION
B. CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964
C. EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION (EEOC)

III. NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF WOMEN Ð N.O.W.
A. CIVIL RIGHTS ROOTS
B. COUNTER CULTURE AND NEW LEFT

  1. THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL
C. EMERGENCE OF COLLECTIVE IDENTITY

IV. THE ISSUES

V. THE WOMENÕS MOVEMENT
A. CULTURAL VALUES AND SOCIAL CHANGE

VI. CONFLICT Ð INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIAL

VII. THE E.R.A.

created: April 16, 2001
last updated: April 16, 2001

Copyright 2001, Mark Kornbluh