This is an essay about the New Women's Movement in the United States that emerged in the 1960s. The question: What did the New Women's Movement seek to achieve and was it successful?
Date Submitted: 04/18/2004 15:52:56
Category: / Social Sciences / Sociology
Length: 9 pages (2510 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Sociology
Length: 9 pages (2510 words)
What did the New Women's Movement seek to achieve and was it successful?
The New Women's Movement emerged in the 1960s with a reconditioned society. Women were moving into the labour force, their education levels were increasing, the birth rate was decreasing and the divorce level and single motherhood were rising, leaving behind new situations and experiences that opened up many unanswered questions and a new consciousness . The Kennedy Administration provided the atmosphere in which …
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…How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America, (New York, 2000).
Rupp, Leila J. and Verta Taylor, Making Connections: The Resurgence of the Women's Movement, (New York, 1990).
Taylor, Verta and Leila J. Rupp, 'Lesbian Existence and the Women's Movement: Researching the "Lavender Herring"' in Heidi Gottfried, (ed.), Feminism and Social Change, (Urbana, 1996).
Willis, Ellen, 'Forward' in Alice Echols, (ed.), Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America 1967-1975, (Minnesota, 1989).
Written by Amanda Turner.
University of Auckland.
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