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1.3.3 Second Wave Feminism
Second Wave Feminism is more radical in its thought and formation. Apart from blaming the institutions, it attacks the basic meanings of ‘man’ and ‘woman’. Second Wave Feminists focused on a broad range of issues in the 1960s, 70s and early 80 are including discrimination in workplaces and in broader society. Some of the key struggles were around affirmative action, pay equity, rape, domestic violence, pornography and sexism in the media, and reproductive choice. The fight for reproductive choice included a fight to have information about, and access to, birth control (selling or promoting birth control was illegal in Canada until 1969) as well as the struggle to decriminalize abortion. In 1988 the Supreme Court …show more content…

The third wave feminism has derived from radical and socialist feminism. The third wave feminists re-evaluate and extend the issues taken up by the second wave. They also critically re-assess themes and concepts of second wave feminism. They don’t take up “women” as a general category but focus on the factual and theoretical implication of difference among women. The difference not biological but those that resulted from the unequal distribution of socially produced goods and services on the basis of position in global system, caste, class, race, ethnicity, religion, age and affectional preference. These factors interact with gender stratification. Hence several studies have come up with topic like “gender and race”, “gender and global location”, “gender and caste etc. These studies show an intricately inter-woven system of caste, class, race, gender and global expression and privileges. This oppressive system produces pathological attitude, actions and personalities such pathological personalities came up in new feminist movement. Hence this is called as global movement and futurist movement of the 21st …show more content…

It is the pursuit of women 's rights within the society of India. Like their feminist counterparts all over the world, feminists in India seek gender equality: the right to work for equal wages, the right to equal access to health and education, and equal political rights. Indian feminists also have fought against culture-specific issues within India 's patriarchal society, such as inheritance laws and the practice of widow immolation known as

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By the 1960s women were fed up with their conditions, they felt like they were treated as second class citizens because wages were going up, unemployment rates were going down, but women were still considered lesser to men (Bellamy, Liz, and Kate Moorse, 73) and therefore started the second wave of feminism or the Women's Liberation Movement (Hundey and Margarry, 277-278). Women finally had the resources to strongly campaign for gender equality: they had the media, television, radio as well as constantly increasing literacy and education rates for women (Bellamy, Liz, and Kate Moorse, 73). The second wave of feminism would be the final push needed to seal the deal with gender equality. In response, the Royal Commission on the Status of Women was created in order to recommend steps towards women's equality (Hundey and Margarry, 341) and was important because it gave a layout as to how the Charter of Rights and freedoms would be altered in the upcoming years. The Royal Commission made sure that in the 1970s discriminatory employment on the basis of gender was illegal and it gave recommendations towards how gender equality would be achieved (Anderson).

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One area of focus in second wave feminism was a woman’s right to have an abortion. This was a controversial topic that came to a head in the landmark decision of the Roe V. Wade case in 1973. Women’s rights in the workplace also gained national attention in 1970s second wave feminism. Although it may not be apparent on the surface of the horror films of the 1970s, these issues of national concern carried over into the realm of

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The second-wave feminist movement had a positive influence on our current society as exemplified by the National Organization for Women, Redstockings, Anti-Rape Movement, Battered Women’s Movement, by women such as Robin Morgan, Carol Hanisch, Betty Friedan, and Gloria Steinem, as well as topics like abortion, birth control, college, job opportunities, the use of Ms., and black women empowerment. To begin with, the National Organization for Women was an essential element to why American women have as many rights as they do. This movement encompassed most of the ideals of the second-wave feminist movement and became established by their defiance towards oppression from the government and job discrimination. From the “Bill of Rights for Women”

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The Women’s Movement The Women’s movement in the 1960s or the “Second wave of feminism” stemmed from every women’s limitations in almost every aspect of life. After the first wave feminism which focussed solely on gaining women’s suffrage, the second wave moved on to different every day discriminations. From family to work, a woman lived by her expectations. She was to marry in her early 20s, so that she could start a family early and devote her life to being a housewife, no chance at a career, that was considered a mans job.

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