Women's Rights and Civil Rights
Ann Varghese
Cold War Societies
Domestic Containment and Female Liberation
- Nikita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon had a grand beate in Moscow, the kitchen debate - Their arguement was based on the importance of woemn and domesticity ANALYSIS: While their arguement was mostly about women, and innovation relating to women's roles, both sides could use that to gain an understanding of the different culture and societies |
US vs Soviet Views on Women
Soviet Union
- Believed in more efficient means of women working as well as men - Preferrered to keep innovation for uses like weaponry and defense - Women were not dicouraged from having jobs like females in America - |
United States
- Celebrated "wondrous" home appliaces which made lives of women easier - Under notion that women best served their familes and their nation by staying home and rasing patriotic kids - Political and social leaders htought families would be the best defence against communist infiltration - Believed men earned more than enough money so that women need not work, and a women's most important role was to keep her family happy and healthy - Many women grew fed up with the domestic life that women seemed to be trapped in, and helped fuel modern feminist movements - More married women had jobs in the cold war than WWII - Women aligned themselves, to some extent, with Soviet Union, and drawing inspiration from women in areas like Asia and Africa who fought for their independance, and won civil liberties |
Feminism |
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- Built on dissatisfaction of having to return home, leaving their jobs, after the end of WWII
-French writer, Simone de Beauvoir, wrote "The Second Sex", and Betty Friedan later wrote "The Femine Mystique" -Female activists started to use the same language and terms as Marxism and anticolonialism, searching for equality and independance |
Civil Rights Movements
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Bibliography
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