The Women’s Liberation Movement in America

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1、iiiAbstractThewomen’sliberationmovementfirststartedinAmerica.Theadvanceinwomen’srightinAmericafromthe1960sonwardsrepresentsoneofthegreatestpeacefulmassmovementsofourtime,notonlyinAmericabutnowthroughouttheworld.Themovementdoplayedaimportantroleinwome

2、n’slife,ithasfreedwomen’smindandchangedwomen’ssocialposition.Keywords:womens;liberationmovement;America;feminismiiContentAbstractiContentiiTheWomen’sLiberationMovementinAmerica1TheFirstWaveoftheAmericaWomen’sMovement1AnOverallImprovementintheConditio

3、nsofWomen’sLives1TheSecondWaveoftheAmericanWomen’sMovement1TheBacklashagainstFeminism2TheCurrentStatusofWomen2Conclusion2iiiiTheWomen’sLiberationMovementinAmericaTheFirstWaveoftheAmericaWomen’sMovementWomen’sLiberationwasnotbeganasamovementintheearly

4、1960s.Thefirstpressuretochangethestatusofwomenarosefromasmallmeetingcalledtoconsiderthe“social,civil,andreligiousconditionandrightsofwomen”whichassembledattheWesleyanChapelinSenecaFallsinupstateNewYorkin1848.TheonlyadvertisedspeakeratthemeetingwasLuc

5、retiaMott,however,theimpellingforcebehindtheconferencewasElizabethCadyStanton.TheyledtheteamtodrawupTheSenecaFallsDeclaration.Itisnowregardedasthesinglemostimportantdocumentofthenineteenth-centuryAmericanwomen’smovement.UsingthedeclarationofIndepende

6、nceasamodel,itmarksthefirstcallforsystematicrightsforwomenalongthelinesofthosealreadyavailabletowhitemen.AnOverallImprovementintheConditionsofWomen’sLivesAtfirst,thewomenwhobecameactivefeministsinthe1960smaynothaverealizedtheircommoncausewithblacks.T

7、heirrevoltwassparkedbyalargenumberofinterconnectedissuesarisingfromanoverallimprovementintheconditionsofwomen’slives.Firstofall,intermsoftechnology,factorieshadnowtakenovermanyofthetraditionaltasksofwomen.Allthesedevelopmentsrobbedwomenoftheirtraditi

8、onalemploymentsastheprimarysourcesofhouseholdfood,clothing,cleanlinessandliteracy.Secondly,Americanwomenwerebecomingmoreeducated.Bythesecondhalfofthecenturyanumberofprestigiouswomen’scollegeswerefounded,dedicatedtoeducatingwomentothesamestandardasmen