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National Woman's Party and the Equal Rights Amendment, 1945-1977
Title
The National Woman's Party and the Equal Rights Amendment, 1945-1977.
Creator
Neumann, Caryn Ellen., Florida Atlantic University, Bannan, Helen M.
Abstract/Description
The years following World War II were grim ones for women's organizations. Although the National Woman's Party (NWP) managed to survive, it never managed to thrive. Great determination on the part of its members to ban gender discrimination by means of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) did not prove adequate to the task of getting the amendment through Congress. Frustration within the NWP at the continued failure of ERA turned member against member. Unable to attract replacements for those who...
Show moreThe years following World War II were grim ones for women's organizations. Although the National Woman's Party (NWP) managed to survive, it never managed to thrive. Great determination on the part of its members to ban gender discrimination by means of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) did not prove adequate to the task of getting the amendment through Congress. Frustration within the NWP at the continued failure of ERA turned member against member. Unable to attract replacements for those who had left the party, the NWP diminished in strength. Before it collapsed entirely, upon the death of founder Alice Paul in 1977, the NWP introduced a new generation of feminists to ERA.
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Date Issued
1994
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15049
Subject Headings
Equal rights amendments--United States, National Woman's Party--History, Women--Suffrage--United States, Women's rights--United States, Feminism--United States
Format
Document (PDF)
Women's feminist collective identity: A liberal feminist analysis of feminist identification and feminist consciousness
Title
Women's feminist collective identity: A liberal feminist analysis of feminist identification and feminist consciousness.
Creator
Hiller, Tiffany Ann., Florida Atlantic University, Appleton, Lynn M.
Abstract/Description
Data from the 1992 American National Election Study are used to examine three issues: first, who is most likely to identify as a feminist; second, who is likely to show a feminist consciousness; and finally who possesses both the feminist identification and feminist consciousness that demonstrate a feminist collective identity. The results indicate that feminist identification and feminist consciousness are separate but related constructs and that overall feminist collective identity among...
Show moreData from the 1992 American National Election Study are used to examine three issues: first, who is most likely to identify as a feminist; second, who is likely to show a feminist consciousness; and finally who possesses both the feminist identification and feminist consciousness that demonstrate a feminist collective identity. The results indicate that feminist identification and feminist consciousness are separate but related constructs and that overall feminist collective identity among women is weak. The findings indicate a need to make clear which dimension--feminist identification or feminist consciousness--is being used in efforts to understand women's feminist collective identity and how these three concepts interact with cohort, employment status, income, education, race, and marital status.
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Date Issued
1997
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15500
Subject Headings
Feminist theory--United States, Women--United States--Social conditions, Women--United States--Identity, Feminism--United States, Consciousness
Format
Document (PDF)
Betty Friedan and "The Feminine Mystique": An example of rhetorical exclusion
Title
Betty Friedan and "The Feminine Mystique": An example of rhetorical exclusion.
Creator
Carney, Ann Maire., Florida Atlantic University, Mulvaney, Becky
Abstract/Description
One of the key catalytic feminist works of our time is The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan. Although acclaimed as a well researched artifact designed to help "American women" recognize and understand how and why they were being manipulated via a social phenomenon Friedan terms a "feminine mystique," upon close examination of this work we find that the preponderance of inductive examples Friedan uses to persuade her implied audience excluded another audience, specifically black women. The...
Show moreOne of the key catalytic feminist works of our time is The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan. Although acclaimed as a well researched artifact designed to help "American women" recognize and understand how and why they were being manipulated via a social phenomenon Friedan terms a "feminine mystique," upon close examination of this work we find that the preponderance of inductive examples Friedan uses to persuade her implied audience excluded another audience, specifically black women. The effect of this "rhetorical exclusion" (and other means of segregation) has been the disaffection of most black women from the contemporary women's movement. This study, therefore, provides a critical analysis of specific inductive examples found within The Feminine Mystique, demonstrates how such examples affected both Friedan's implied and excluded audiences, and suggests how such forms of "rhetorical exclusion" can be avoided in the future.
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Date Issued
1994
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15102
Subject Headings
Friedan, Betty--Criticism and interpretation, Friedan, Betty--Feminine mystique, Feminism--United States, African American women--Social conditions
Format
Document (PDF)