THE SECOND WAVE
American Women's Liberation, from the Vote to Roe, 1920-1973By Lydia Frances Hooper
Length5h 57m
About this audiobook
The complete narrative history of women's liberation, 1920-1973 — from the Nineteenth Amendment to Roe v. Wade, Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique, Title VII, the ERA, and the second wave of American feminism.
In 1957, Betty Friedan mailed a questionnaire to her fellow Smith College graduates, class of 1942. What she found — and published six years later as The Feminine Mystique — was a pervasive, unarticulated dissatisfaction among educated women following the prescribed path of marriage and motherhood. She called it "the problem that has no name." The book sold three million copies in its first three years and sent a generation of women looking for the remedies. This is the history of how they found them — and what they built and failed to build in the process.
Lydia Frances Hooper traces the full arc of American women's liberation from the Nineteenth Amendment's 1920 ratification through Roe v. Wade in 1973: the legal framework of coverture that the vote did not touch, the New Deal's Frances Perkins and Eleanor Roosevelt opening federal power to women while building a Social Security system that treated wives as dependents, the wartime Rosie the Riveter breakthrough and its postwar reversal, and the 1960s explosion — Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, NOW, consciousness-raising, the Miss America protest of 1968, the birth control pill, Griswold v. Connecticut, and the ERA's 84-8 Senate passage — that transformed law, medicine, and education within a decade.
Inside this women's liberation history:
The problem with no name — Friedan's Smith College questionnaire, the three million copies, and what the book concealed about its author's own labor-journalist past (Chapter 5)
Title VII and the EEOC — how sex discrimination was added to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and how the EEOC's initial refusal to enforce it produced NOW (Chapter 10)
The birth control pill — six million users by 1965, ten million by 1970; Barbara Seaman's 1969 exposure of the cardiovascular risks manufacturers had hidden; the congressional hearings where feminists demanded women be heard on a drug only women used (Chapter 17)
Phyllis Schlafly's STOP ERA — how one conservative organizer, founding her campaign in October 1972, held the ERA at 35 of the required 38 states and killed it by 1982 (Chapter 22)
Our Bodies, Ourselves — the twelve Boston women who met at a 1969 conference and compiled the book that sold millions and changed women's relationship to medical authority (Chapter 18)
Roe v. Wade — the 1973 decision, its Griswold v. Connecticut foundation, and the lasting controversy the ruling produced (Chapter 20)
The second wave was not unified — it split over the ERA, over pornography, over race and class, over whether women needed equal treatment or different treatment. Those disagreements were productive: they forced harder thinking about what equality meant. Within a decade, women changed the law, changed medicine, changed education, and changed the language. The changes were incomplete, as all revolutions are, and they provoked a counterreaction that shaped American politics for the next half century. Both are still unfolding.
For readers of Ruth Rosen's THE WORLD SPLIT OPEN and Gail Collins's WHEN EVERYTHING CHANGED.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory, Psychology
Length5 hrs 57 mins
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LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Author’s Note
3Prologue: More Than the Vote
4PART ONE: AFTER THE VOTE (1920-1945)
5Chapter 1: The Vote Won — What the Nineteenth Amendment Did and Didn't Achieve
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6Chapter 2: The Twenties Woman — Flappers, Careers, and the Limits of the New Freedom
7Chapter 3: The Depression and the New Deal — Women, Work, and the Family Economy
8Chapter 4: World War II — Rosie the Riveter and Women in the Wartime Workforce
9PART TWO: THE FIFTIES — CONSTRAINT AND DISCONTENT (1945-1963)
10Chapter 5: The Feminine Mystique — Betty Friedan and the Problem with No Name
11Chapter 6: The Suburban Trap — Housewifery, the Baby Boom, and the Hidden Discontent
12Chapter 7: Working Women in the Fifties — The Women Who Never Left the Labor Force
13Chapter 8: The Civil Rights Movement and Women — The Schooling in Activism
14Chapter 9: The President's Commission on the Status of Women — Kennedy, Esther Peterson, and the Report
15Chapter 10: Title VII and the EEOC — Sex Discrimination and the Civil Rights Act of 1964
16Chapter 11: NOW — The National Organization for Women and Mainstream Feminism
17Chapter 12: The New Left and Women — SNCC, SDS, and the Sexism That Radicalized Women
18PART FOUR: RADICAL FEMINISM AND THE LIBERATION MOVEMENT (1968-1973)
19Chapter 13: The Miss America Protest — Radical Feminism Enters the Public Stage
20Chapter 14: Consciousness-Raising — The Politics of the Personal
21Chapter 15: Women's Liberation Groups — Radical Feminism's Diverse Strands
22Chapter 16: The ERA — The Equal Rights Amendment and Its Passage Through Congress
23PART FIVE: BODIES, MEDICINE, AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
24Chapter 17: The Birth Control Pill — Technology, Freedom, and the Sexual Revolution
25Chapter 18: Our Bodies, Ourselves — Health, Medicine, and Women's Knowledge
26Chapter 19: Griswold v. Connecticut — Privacy, Contraception, and the Constitutional Foundation
27Chapter 20: Roe v. Wade — Abortion, the Supreme Court, and the Lasting Controversy
28PART SIX: LEGACIES
29Chapter 21: Title IX — Education, Sports, and the Law That Changed Women's Opportunity
30Chapter 22: The Anti-Feminist Backlash — Phyllis Schlafly, the STOP ERA Campaign, and the Culture Wars
31Chapter 23: Women and Work — The Transformation of the Female Labor Force
32Chapter 24: The Unfinished Revolution — Gender Equality and Its Continuing Struggles
33Epilogue: The Revolution Continues
34Acknowledgments
35Selected Bibliography
36About the Author
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