{"id":205,"date":"2021-02-14T13:40:28","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T18:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/idst398u\/?p=205"},"modified":"2021-02-14T13:41:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T18:41:11","slug":"feminists-what-were-they-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/idst398u\/2021\/02\/14\/feminists-what-were-they-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Feminists: What Were They Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"

They were thinking of all of the things that women could not<\/em> do and the clear double standard that gave men advantage over women. There was no language to describe the kind of treatment women were subject to in the home and on the job. Attractiveness, narrowly defined, was the only metric used to value women.<\/p>\n

They reference the play, \u201cA Doll\u2019s House,\u201d by Henrik Ibsen. It is about the dissolution of a marriage because of the inequality between the husband and wife. The woman is a \u201cdoll\u201d\u2014a mere plaything subject to the whims of her father, and then her husband.<\/p>\n

Here is a link to the full text of the play if anyone is interested.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/2542\/2542-h\/2542-h.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

The documentary talks about Betty Friedan and Germaine Greer, both of whom wrote seminal works in feminism. Freidan wrote The Feminine Mystique<\/em> and Greer, The Female Eunuch<\/em>. Below are links to articles on both that will give you an idea of where these seminal works fit in the second wave of feminism. Friedan\u2019s argument was that women needed more than husbands and children for fulfillment. Her work seems to address only the problems of white, middle- lass women. Greer advanced the argument that becoming a homemaker was the equivalent to the surgical emasculation of men. Women could also be made \u201ceunuchs\u201d\u2014robbed of the ability to fully realize their sexuality because of the nature of the suburban, nuclear family, consumerist family.<\/p>\n

\u201c4 Problems with The Feminine Mystique,\u201d by Ashley Fetters<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/sexes\/archive\/2013\/02\/4-big-problems-with-the-feminine-mystique\/273069\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat Germaine Greer and the Female Eunuch Mean to Me\u201d<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2014\/jan\/26\/germaine-greer-female-eunuch-feminists-influence<\/a><\/p>\n

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A Summary of The Female Eunuch<\/em><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.marxists.org\/subject\/women\/authors\/greer-germaine\/female-eunuch.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

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Judy Chicago talks about \u201cbeing fathered.\u201d What does that mean for her? How did her father\u2019s experiences give him a particular outlook on raising his daughter? What does that have to do with feminism?<\/p>\n

In the second wave of feminism, girls were required to take \u201cHome Economics\u201d in high school. These courses taught basics of cooking, cleaning, and diapering babies. It was formalized socialization for becoming a wife and mother. Women\u2019s work is the work of service and sacrifice. What is the problem with this kind of training? In my mind, it is that the high school boys didn’t have to take them, too. It was also a problem that there were not materials on finances\u2014what it really costs to live and feed even one child. No explanations of banking, loans, credit, or compound interest.<\/p>\n

Some things to think about: How much do looks matter today? Are women still focused on establishing families and being taught to be \u201csweet,\u201d \u201cgood girls,\u201d and \u201cyoung ladies\u201d?<\/p>\n

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