The 1960's: Freedom Redefined Flashcards
What were some important movements of the 1960’s and their impact on the political debates of the time?
Civil Rights Movement
Women’s Movement
Anti-War Movement
Student Movement
Counter-culture
What did the Civil Rights Movement question?
The meaning of equality
What did the Women’s Movement question?
Gender roles and the structure of the family
What did the Anti-War movement question?
American values and America’s role in the world
What did the student movement question?
The need for education
What did counter-culture question?
Everything
How did the 60’s influence America’s views of freedom?
New definition of freedom: Liberation from external authority or traditional morality that might
constrain your individual desires.
Who said, “We are people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort,
housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we
inherit.”?
Students for a Democratic Society, “The Port Huron Statement”
What made the students for a democratic society stand up?
- Racial bigotry in the south
- Talk of war (The cold war, bombs)
The phrase “___________ _____________” was coined by Friedan to describe the assumptions that women would be fulfilled from their housework, marriage, sexual lives, and children.
Feminine Mystique
What is “the problem with no name”?
A problem of identity for women who wonder “Where am I? What am I doing here?”
Who said, ““Our culture does not permit women to accept or gratify their basic need
to grow and fullfill their potentialities as human beings,”?
Betty Friedman in The Problem with No Name
According to Betty Friedman, the real sexual revolution is…
“the emergence of women from
passivity, from thingness to full self-determination, to full dignity.”
Did we go to Vietnam to fulfill self-interest or __________?
virtue
Supporters of the Vietnam War saw the Vietnam War as an important war against _______________.
communism
