2. number of changes

Question 1

New kind of feminism
challenged?
Influence by?

Answer 1

the basis of women’s role in society.

writers such as Betty Friedan.

Question 2

Demands for political and social change underpinned by

Answer 2

an ideology that had not been so apparent in previous women’s movements.

Question 3

study ‘Report on American Women’. 
when published?
commissioned by? 
who had worked on the survey?
who read it and what did they find?

Answer 3

Study published in 1963
commissioned by President Kennedy
Several educated women
read by the elite. found the statistics of unequal pay, opportunities, political participation and status disturbing

Question 4

By the 1960s there was a movement for change.

Answer 4

The Republican ascendancy of the Eisenhower years gave way to a reforming democrat administration led by kennedy.
His ‘New Frontier’ while not closely defined gave the impression that change was needed after a long period of internal stagnation and that the US needed modernisation.

Question 5

key text of feminism
Betty Friedan’s book Feminine Mystique
when?
expressed?

Answer 5

1963
middle class women's discontent with post war period