Example 1: Feminism in the US (1960-1979)
The US feminist movement of the 1960s and 1970s emerged from dissatisfaction with post-Second World War gender roles and inequality. While women had contributed significantly when needed for war work, they were pushed back into domesticity in the 1950s. By the 1960s, many women, especially in the middle class, felt trapped by rigid expectations, a discontent voiced in Betty Friedan’s book The Feminine Mystique...