Final exam

• Feminine mystique


  • a world view
  • women are more happy being women and mothers and strive to achieve the american dream
  • women are fragile
  • delicate
  • can't perform difficult physical tasks
  • need to be protected
  • can't do night shifts/physical labour
  • "superior to men" are expected to obey by the rules of society
  • pedestalize/used as trophies
  • women can't dream of anything more than being a woman of the house and a wife
• Feminine mystique complied with the grand narrative of the american dream
• Examples of women who had feminine mystique

  • Eve/Mary
  • angel
• How was the feminine mystique propagated?

  1. Magazines

  2. Books

  3. television

  4. by 1950 almost all homes had access to educational/instructional programs + advertising
• Those who did not conform to feminine mystique were considered abnormal/given tranquilizers
• Working class and minority women had to earn a living and worked in factories/fields
• Economic factors that helped trigger and advance feminism:
• Social factors that helped trigger and advance feminism:
• Theological factor that helped trigger and advance feminism:
• Political factors that helped trigger and advance feminism:
• The murder of Emmett Till was the trigger of the Civil Rights movement
• The South had an agrarian economy relying on labour-intensive cotton agriculture, where blacks were forced to work under Jim Crow segregation even after the abolition of slavery
• Types of activism groups

  • SNNC/ Student non-violent coordinating committee
  • CORE/Congress on Racial Equality
• SNNC mission


  direct-action campaigns against segregation
• CORE mission


  improve race relations
• The BPP was created after the assassination of Malcolm X
• Huey Newton wasn't necessarily targeted by the FBI since he already had a drug addiction
• The Rainbow Coalition was a multicultural alliance that died in a police raid organized by the FBI
• The downfall of the BPP was due to destruction by law & order institutions, unease of illegal programs/intelligence apparatuses, COINTELPRO, and internal issues like splitting, fighting, infiltration, and drugs
• "Law and order" culture and backlash

  • harsher enforcement to reduce crime
  • political/gov have control and instil fear in society so people conform
• "By any means necessary"

  • used at first by Malcom X
  • used by J. Edgar Hoover to terminate every last civil rights movement using all his power
• "Cold War consensus"


  Cold war more important than any civil rights movement
• The government didn't want change to happen, as evidenced by JFK's position on civil rights being less important than the Cold War