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1 Feminism From Suffrage to Third Wave 1

2 Suffrage Realignment  The NAWSA becomes the League of Women Voters 2

3 Suffrage Realignment  The National Woman’s Party searches for a new identity and decides on Equal Rights Amendment 3

4 1920s Social Feminism  Sheppard Towner Act, Florence Kelley 4

5 1930s New Deal  Women leaders gain visibility in Roosevelt’s Administration  Frances Perkins  Mary McLeod Bethune  Eleanor Roosevelt 5

6 World War II  6 million women enter the workforce  Married women outnumber unmarried women in the workforce for the first time 6

7 World War II  350,000 women serve in the armed forces 7

8 1950s and the “domestic ideal” Baby Boom, suburbia, and consumerism 8

9 Origins of Second Wave Feminism  Presidential Commission on the Status of Women, Equal Pay Act, 1963 9

10 Origins of Second Wave  Civil Rights Movement, Ella Baker, Civil Rights Act of 1964 10

11 Origins of Second Wave  Betty Friedan, Feminine Mystique  The “problem that has no name” 11

12 National Organization for Women  Founded by Martha Griffiths, Betty Friedan, Pauli Murray and others 12

13 Ms. Magazine  Gloria Steinem 13

14 Equal Rights Amendment  Passes Congress in 1972 14

15 ERA Ratification effort  Houston meeting, 1977 15

16 ERA opponents  Phyllis Schlafly and Jerry Falwell 16

17 Third Wave Feminism  Where are we headed? 17


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