Friday, May 20, 2016
Women's Rights Movement
During the 1960s, women were beginning to feel a desire to become something more in life. They desired to leave behind their aprons and wedding rings (for younger women) for a lifestyle that allowed them to embrace their freedom and youth in ways that hadn't explored before.Women became more free with themselves and desired to express themselves in new and different ways, without being held back by society's expectations. A book called the Feminine Mystique encouraged women to "be more than her husbands wife" and to do something about the dissatisfaction they felt in their lives. This new found desire for accomplishment and individuality was a major factor in the women's rights movement.
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It sounds like the 1960's were a great catalyst for modern women and movements. We can thank these movements for our contemporary presidential elections where we now have a woman running for office. This would have been a ridiculous concept back in the 60's, and most likely, would have experienced major hate and aggressive behaviors. It is also an interesting phenomena that the rise of civil rights movement provided a good push for other movements to make themselves be heard and advance their implementation of techniques shared by the civil rights movement.
ReplyDeleteLove it millie! Women were on the come up and you showed it through the years they got those right!
ReplyDeleteI think this is an important item to discuss because it was very good for woman to embrace themselves during that time and do what they felt was fine.
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