Week 14

The Seventies and the Eighties

Monday: The Women's Movement
Wednesday: Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll -- The Counter-Culture
Friday: The "Me Decade" and Post-Modern America

DISCUSSION SECTIONS: Feminism and the Student Movements

READINGS:

1.Documents: N.O.W. Statement of Purpose (1966); N.O.W. Bill of Rights, 1968; "What Are We
Complaining About?" (1970)
2.Rebecca Klatch, "Women Against Feminism"
3.Susan Faludi, "Blame it on Feminism," Introduction to Backlash (1991).
4.Documents: Ronald Reagan, Address on Behalf of Senator Barry Goldwater (1964); Jimmy Carter, The
Crisis of American Spirit (1979); Executive Summary, Independent Council's Report on Iran-Contra.

ADDITIONAL INTERNET RESOURCES:

1.The Diggers Archives OnLine
http://www.diggers.org/
2.Timeline of Women's Movement
http://www.feminist.org/research/chronicles/fc1953.html
3.Ronald Reagan OnLine:
http://history.hanover.edu/20th/reagan.htm

Written Assignment
Over the past three weeks, we have talked about the range of social, civil and cultural reforms, and calls for reform, that characterized the 1960s and 1970s -- from LBJ's "Great Society" to the Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam, the Women's Movement, counterculture and many others.

This week we will focus on Feminism and the Student Movements. Your weekly assignment has two parts:

1. Read (or reread) "The Port Huron Statement" by Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), which was assigned to you for last week; then,
2. Read this week's assigned reading including Klatch's and Faludi's articles.

Copyright 2001, Mark Kornbluh