1. Feminism
Dr. Christopher S. Rice

3. “Feminism is an entire world
view of gestalt, not just a
laundry list of women’s
issues.”
Charlotte Bunch

4. “The true Republic: men, their
rights and nothing more;
women, their rights and
nothing less.”
Susan B. Anthony

8. 33% 25%

12. Americans still support
traditional feminist values…
• 53% of Americans supported affirmative
action programs for women.
• 87% favored “training courses or policies
that raise people’s awareness about fairness
in hiring women.”
• 71% favored hiring quotas for women.
• Irony: feminist ideals now so accepted that
they’re no longer associated with feminism.
“I’m not a feminist, but…”.

13. Americans still support
traditional feminist values…
• 53% of Americans supported affirmative
action programs for women.
• 87% favored “training courses or policies
that raise people’s awareness about fairness
in hiring women.”
• 71% favored hiring quotas for women.
• Irony: feminist ideals now so accepted that
they’re no longer associated with feminism.
“I’m not a feminist, but…”.

14. Americans still support
traditional feminist values…
• 53% of Americans supported affirmative
action programs for women.
• 87% favored “training courses or policies
that raise people’s awareness about fairness
in hiring women.”
• 71% favored hiring quotas for women.
• Irony: feminist ideals now so accepted that
they’re no longer associated with feminism.
“I’m not a feminist, but…”.

15. Americans still support
traditional feminist values…
• 53% of Americans supported affirmative
action programs for women.
• 87% favored “training courses or policies
that raise people’s awareness about fairness
in hiring women.”
• 71% favored hiring quotas for women.
• Irony: feminist ideals now so accepted that
they’re no longer associated with feminism.
“I’m not a feminist, but…”.

16. First Wave Feminism

20. The Struggle for Suffrage

22. Second Wave Feminism

23. 3

24. Commission on the Status of
Women created in 1961 by JFK
to report on the status of women
in America, in all 50 states.

25. Title VII of the 1964 Civil
Rights Act prohibited sexual
discrimination in employment
and the EEOC was charged with
enforcing this.

26. Betty Friedan published
The Feminine Mystique.

29. Power Feminism
a conservative feminism,
resembling many of Phyllis
Schlafly’s arguments vs. liberal
feminism (which holds that liberal
feminism portrays women as the
innocent victims of male desire).

30. Lifestyle Feminism
An effort to reclaim femininity as
“girl power”, portraying the
sexualized female not as the
image of male desire but as a
liberating image of femininity.

31. Problems with Second
Wave Feminism

32. Postfeminism?