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The Politics of Protest [week 13]. Second Wave Feminism. Second Wave Feminism. What was ‘first wave’ feminism? T he (contradictory) spirit of 1968. Second Wave Feminism. What was ‘first wave’ feminism? T he (contradictory) spirit of 1968. Stage One. Consciousness-raising (CR) groups
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The Politics of Protest [week 13] Second Wave Feminism
Second Wave Feminism What was ‘first wave’ feminism? The (contradictory) spirit of 1968
Second Wave Feminism What was ‘first wave’ feminism? The (contradictory) spirit of 1968
Stage One Consciousness-raising (CR) groups Personal experience over theory Symbolic actions Solidarity with earlier protests Not just about politics
Action groups National Organisation for Women (NOW) Redstockings Front de Liberation des Femmes (FLF) Dolle Minas
More action, but not necessarily in groups Grass-roots organisation Worker mobilisation National Women’s Liberation Conference
The seven demands Equal pay Equal education and opportunity Free contraception and abortion on demand Twenty-four hour childcare Financial and legal independence End to all discrimination against lesbians Freedom from intimidation by threat or use of violence Browne (2011)
The trouble starts Feminism and the Far Left Feminism and Men Divisions within the movement Women and men again Who speaks for whom?
Conclusions Legalisation of abortion Reconsideration of female identity Post-1968 endurance A new feminist public sphere Linking control over female sexual body to relations of power in society Intersections