Second wave feminism

Question 1

Date?

Answer 1

the 1960s and 70s were the so-called “second wave”

Question 2

Who was frustrated?

Answer 2

college-educated mothers whose discontent impelled their daughters in a new direction.

Question 3

President John F. Kennedy’s Commission on the Status of Women

Answer 3

• created in 1961.
• appointed Eleanor Roosevelt to lead it.
• supported the nuclear family and preparing women for motherhood.
• documented a national pattern of employment discrimination, unequal pay, legal inequality, and meagre support services for working women.

Question 4

Liberal feminists

Answer 4

Focused their energy on concrete and pragmatic change at an institutional and governmental level. Their aim was to intergrate women more thoroughly into the power structure and give women equal access to positions men had traditionally dominated.

Question 5

Radical feminism

Answer 5

They aimed to reshape society and restructure its institutions. Argued that women’s subservient role in society was too closely woven into the social fabric to be unravelled without a revolutionary revamping of society.
They sought to develop nonhierarchical and antiauthoritarian approaches to politics and organisation.

Question 6

Cultural feminism

Answer 6

rejected the notion that men and women are intrinsically the same and advocated celebrating the qualities they associated with women. they critique mainstream feminism’s attempt to enter traditionally male spheres.