Assignment Question
Did Feminists overturn sexist assumptions and traditions to create new opportunities & attitudes? Sources Options (include 3 of the following): Naomi Parker-Fraley,inspiration for Rosie the Riveter: womanhood before WWII The Feminine Mystique: ” The [feminine] mystique makes the housewife- mother… rhe model for all women… It simply makes certain concrete, finite, domestic aspects of feminine existence- as it eas lived by women whose lives were confined by necessity into cooking, cleaning, washing, bearing children-into a religion, pattern by which all women must now live or deny their feminity.”-Betty Friedan(1963) US Supreme Court in 1973 Roe v. Wade decision “Uppity Women Unite” National Organization for Women 1966 “We reject the current assumption that a man must carry the sole burden of supporting himself, his wife, and family, and that a woman is automatically entitle to lifeling support by a man upon her marrage… We believe that a true partnership between the sexes demands a different concept of marriage, an equitable sharing of the responsabilities of home and children and of the economic burderns of their support.” -1966
