Accomplished Women: Feminist Movement 1970s Documentary - Part 2 (1974)

1974 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000UWNYY2?ie=UTF8&tag=doc06-20&link... Watch the full film: http://thefilmarchived.blogspot.com/2010/10/accomplished-women-1974.html

The phrase "Women's Liberation" was first used in the United States in 1964 and first appeared in print in 1966. By 1968, although the term Women's Liberation Front appeared in the magazine Ramparts, it was starting to refer to the whole women's movement. Bra-burning also became associated with the movement. This term is one that needs to be contextualized within American society. It is assuming that the oppressed are all women in America. The work of the Feminist movement have had liberation as a specific goal for women but the agenda has evolved as culture has transformed and the issues being addressed by the Feminist Movement have increased. Keeping in mind that the "Optimism about the outcome of a collective challenge will thus enhance the probability of participation; pessimism will diminish it" allowed women who therefore achieved some sense of liberation to feel accomplished with the time and energy they were dedicating to the movement.

Participation lacked in respect to the broader spectrum of women in America, specifically women who were not white and part of the middle to upper class. The transitions made throughout history however helped to expand the efforts of the Feminist Movement to include women of different race, class, and sexual orientation. Different actions have been seen to be highlights of Women's Liberation but it was a goal of the greater movement rather than one specific moment in history. One of the most vocal critics of the women's liberation movement has been the African American feminist and intellectual, Gloria Jean Watkins (who uses the pseudonym "bell hooks"), who argues that this movement glossed over race and class and thus failed to address "the issues that divided women". She highlighted the lack of minority voices in the women's movement in her book Feminist theory from margin to center (1984).

The division between women in America has been result of differences of race, class, and sexual orientation. It has been "Racism [that] keeps women from uniting against sexism." It is important not to view race or gender with an eye of oppression (Bhavnani 80). The origins of Women's Liberation in America can be identified as being part of two branches that essentially started the Feminist Movement and more specifically the actions towards women's liberation. The older of the two branches included the formation of organizations such as Women's Equity Action League, Human Rights of Women, and the National Organization of Women (NOW). These organization were primarily concerned with the legal and economic obstacles facing women. Men and women worked to address issues of working women, gender roles, salary, and opportunities of women in the workforce. The second branch identified as the younger branch included a larger number of smaller groups that focused specifically on different activities. The efforts of the younger branch was influenced by the events and actions of the Civil Rights Movement and the motivation to create change came from groups like Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) who targeted college campus communities to get involved. By increasing awareness about women's issues individuals were motivated to educate themselves whether it was through experience or academics.

The difference between the older and younger branches is their organization and structure. The older branch is more likely to work with the structure of society whereas the younger group tend to defy the institutionalized aspect of working with the system. The younger branch makes up many different groups which tended to form among friend circles creating challenges like diversifying the groups. These two branches are important to recognize because they allow the history of the Feminist Movement to be contextualized within American culture. The branches help to identify the efforts that have gone on in social circles, college campus, and cities all over the country.

Katharine Graham's father, Eugene Meyer, was a financier and, later, a public official. He bought The Washington Post in 1933 at a bankruptcy auction. Her mother, Agnes Ernst, was a bohemian intellectual, art lover and political activist in the Republican Party, who shared friendships with people as diverse as Auguste Rodin, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein and Eleanor Roosevelt, and worked as a newspaper reporter at a time when journalism was an uncommon profession among women.

The Grahams were important members of the Washington social scene, becoming friends with John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Robert F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, and Nancy Reagan among many others.

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[lzan11]

hey guys please view my friend's blog on women representation in the U.S go to laichaiboba.blogspot.com/2011/­12/miss-representation.html check out the video she put and share with your friends! =]

[Mccudden25]

@vancouverology - ummm no way, women are practical well I am anyway I would have designed an easier way to live...however what would be wrong with living in huts? No pollution no economical warfare etc etc

[onlyway2christ1]

Women wanna have full control of anything in everything ALL the time, NO MATTER what, except one thing. And that is as soon as they screw something up, they just slip the situation over to the man! See what he did?

Now they use their looks as a weapon so they can use men. God said in Gen.2:18 It is not good for MAN to be alone, I will make a >>>HELPMATE FOR HIM!!!<<<

All I ask is 4 her to be there for me as I live my life ALL for Her!!!

Jesus Saves

[TheAnnafisher]

vegetarian is sexual abuse of females ... don't buy in it only causes cancers wiki Dr Anna Lee Tingle Fisher from 1984 NASA STS-51-A selling Mars chocolate m&m's Eminem snip cut transplant is they won't pay tax DNA will screw them best except who could trust that homo erectus, womb win cum first ... abort supreme court life is a miracle. Stop saying women aren't smarter Anna Tingle proved to be the smartest you stupid farter with no brains flushing babies miscarried down the drains

[iluvtdi12]

@123ThatOneGuy123 We're the DEVIL. >;D

[vancouverology]

This video shows one truth, as Germaine Greer puts it, "Women are not valued for their intelligence." Well, Yes, they are. But they are not loved for it, nor are they found attractive as a result of it - statistically speaking. In her book, Sexual Personae, Camille Paglia said that, "If civilization had been left in female hands, we would still all be living in grass huts. Well everythings that surrounds us was invented by men (house, planes, TV, computers...)

[MrNattania]

Feminist movement...from the kitchen to the laundry room!

[Sivels]

@arashnikoo and no, socialism is not great, it's evil.

[Sivels]

@arashnikoo Not if it's the tits of a female dog.

[arashnikoo]

@Sivels which both are great! Socialism and tits are great :-)