Women Liberation Movement (History of Contemporary World)

WOMEN LIBERATION MOVEMENT
NAME: SAMUEL THOMAS
ROLL NO: 3405
CLASS: TYBA/B
SEMESTER: V
SUBJECT: HISTORY OF
CONTEMPOARY
WORLD
INDEX
 INTRODUCTION
 AIMS
 METHODOLOGY
 SOCIAL WARRIOR
 Betty Friedan
 Simone de Beauvoir
 CONCLUSION
 BIBLIOGRAPHY
INTRODUCTION
• women’s rights movement, also called women’s liberation
movement, diverse social movement, largely based in the United States, that
in the 1960s and ’70s sought equal rights and opportunities and greater
personal freedom for women .
• It coincided with and is recognized as part of the “second wave” of feminism .
• While the first-wave feminism of the 19th and early 20th centuries focused on
women’s legal rights, especially the right to vote (see women’s suffrage), the
second-wave feminism of the women’s rights movement touched on every
area of women’s experience—including politics, work, the family and sexuality
(LGBTQ) .
• Organized activism by and on behalf of women continued through
the third and fourth waves of feminism from the mid-1990s and the early
2010s, respectively.
AIMS
1)Equality for Women’s
2) General Human Rights for all People.
3) Civil rights
4) Voting rights
5) Ethics empowerment
6) Granting women Reproductive rights
7)Increasing Opportunities for Women in workplace
8) & Redefining Familial roles as well as Gay &
Lesbian Liberation.
9) customs and beliefs in the society that have subjugated
women over the years.
METHODLOGY
The women's liberation movement (WLM) was a political alignment of women

and feminist intellectualism that emerged in the late 1960s and continued into the
1980s primarily in the industrialized nations of the Western world, which
effected great change (political, intellectual, cultural) throughout the world.
In general, the WLM proposed socio-economic change from the political left,
rejected the idea that piecemeal equality, within and according to social class,
would eliminate sexual discrimination against women, and fostered the tenets
of humanism, especially the respect for human rights of all people. In the decades
during which the women's liberation movement flourished, liberationists
successfully changed how women were perceived in their cultures, redefined the
socio-economic and the political roles of women in society, and transformed
mainstream society
SOCIAL WARRIOR
 Betty Friedan :
Betty Friedan was the founder of the modern feminist
movement in United States. Her manifesto “ The Feminine
Mystique “ became a best seller in the 1960s. The book laid the
ground work for the Modern Feminist Movement.
“The Feminine Mystique” detailed the lives of women who were
expected to find fulfillment through the achievements of their
Husband’s & Children's. Friedan asserted in her book that
having a Husband & Babies was not everything & women
should aspire to separate hiddenites as individuals. The
feminine mystique, she said, was a phony bills on goods
society sold to women that left them unfulfilled suffering from
“the problems that has no name” & seeking a solution in
tranquilizers & psychoanalysis.
• Betty Friedan further argued “ A women has got to be able to say, & not feel guilty,
‘Who am I, & What do I want out of life? She must not feel selfish & neurotic if she
wants goals out of her own outside of husband & children. “ The book of Friedan
sparked a movement for re-evaluation of women’s roles in American society.
•In the racial, political and sexual conflicts of the 1960s and 1970s, Friedan's was one of
the most commanding voices & recognizable presences in the women's movement.
Betty Friedan co-founded the National Organization for Women (NOW) in 1966. NOW
was a civil rights group dedicated to achieving equality of opportunity for women. As a
NOW president Friedan led campaigns to end sex-classified employment notices, for
greater representation of women in government, for child-care centers for working
mothers, & for legalized abortion & other reforms. She strongly advocated the Equal
Rights Amendments, a proposed amendment to the US constitution banning sex-based
discrimination.
While promoting liberation of women, Friedan, at the same time insisted that the
•
women’s movement had to mainstream, that men had to be accepted as allies & that
the family should not be rejected. Betty Friedan, who Pioneered the women’s liberation
movement died at the ripe age of 85 in January 2006.
 Simone de Beauvoir:
Simone de Beauvoir of great importance to the
emergence of the postwar women's liberation
movement was the work of Simone de Beauvoir
(1908-1986). Born into a Catholic middleclass family
& educated at the Sorbonne in Paris, she supported
herself as a teacher & later as a novelist and writer.
She maintained a lifelong relationship, but not
marriage, with the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.
Her involvement in the existentialist movement, the
leading intellectual movement of its time, led her to
become active in political causes.
De Beauvoir believed that she lived a 'liberated' life
for a twentieth-century European woman, but for
all her freedom, she still came to perceive that as a
woman she faced limits that men did not. In 1949,
she published her highly influential work The
Second Sex, in which she argued that as a result of
male dominated societies, women had been defined
by their differences from men & consequently
received second-class status.
CONCLUSION
• America has made great strides for the women’s liberation movement
• Issue like healthcare , Average pay, Discrimination, Sexuality & Violence against women still remains to
be completely resolved.
• The salary of the average American woman has Increased over time
• Through determination and perseverance, in 1920 the United States Congress had granted the women
the right to vote. It was the first step in a long journey for women to have the same rights as men.
• Divorce laws were liberalized; employers were barred from firing pregnant women; and women's studies
programs were created in colleges and universities.
• women can be powerful actors for peace, security, and prosperity. When they participate in peace
processes and other formal decision-making processes, they can play an important role in initiating and
inspiring progress on human rights, justice, national reconciliation and economic revitalization.
• To sum it up, only when women and girls get full access to their rights will they be able to enjoy a life
of Freedom It includes everything from equal pay to land ownerships rights and more. Further, a country
can only transform when its women get an equal say in everything and are treated equally.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
• https://billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/betty-friedan-and-the-womens-movement
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_liberation_movement#:~:text=The%2
0women's%20liberation%20movement%20(WLM,%2C%20cultural)%20througho
ut%20the%20world.
• Text book History of Contemporary World “Global Trends and Movement” ( [B]
Women Liberation Movement Pg 134-139)
• https://www.academia.edu/11771661/Womens_Rights_Movement_Presentation

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The women's liberation movement (WLM) was a political alignment of women

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