The Feminist Movement In The 1920's

The 1960s proved to be a time when Western Society was transformed by a variety of protestant movements, which included sexual mores, education, women’s rights, and an antiwar protest. One of these movements were the sexual mores. In the 1920s, when World War I ended, this gave rise to a rigid code of manners and moral of the 19th century, which led to an experimentation of drugs, appearance of pornography, and a new sexual freedom. However, the end of World War II gave society an even more noticeable change in manners and moral, to the extent that critics were calling the society, the permissive society. The country that led the sexual revolution in the 1960s was Sweden, with the aspects of sex education in schools and the decriminalization of homosexuality. Along with the new morals in Sweden, more people had the freedom to engage in sexual activity with the introduction of the birth control pill. Many new movies, plays, and books began to incorporate these “hidden” themes. The traditional families’ standards were also

As the youth revolts broke out in the late 1960s, during this time women also began to assert their rights and speak as feminists. This movement when women began to speak their rights became known as feminism or the women’s liberation movement. An important women to the women’s liberation movement Betty Friedan, who was a journalist and mother of three. She was unhappy about the traditional role of women, which was the “ideal housewife and mother.” Stressing her concerns, she wrote The Feminine Mystique, which analyzed the problems of middle-class American women and argued that women did not have equal rights with men. After her publication, she founded the National Organization for Women (NOW), which had a goal of implementing equality for both men and women. With her importance of equality, she wanted an amendment that guaranteed equal rights for women to be added to the U.S.