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What Impact Did The Second Wave Have On American Women

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All the three waves had an impact on American society. The first wave impacted women socially and gave them the right to vote. While, the second wave gave women more control over their body. Third wave feminists believed there needed to be further changes in stereotypes, media portrayals, and language to define women. From all three waves, I believed that second wave has the biggest impact on America. The first wave (1830’s – early 1900’s): social and rights of woman Often taken for granted, women in the late 19th to early 20th centuries, realized that they must first gain political power, which came from the power of voting. This seed was planted when women started participating in the temperance movement, a social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages. Also, many women were abolitionist and realized that women were also enslaved to patriarchy(Women in the 19th Century). In 1848, the Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and other women published the …show more content…

The movement began with Betty Friedan’s book Feminine Mystique, in her book she discusses misogyny in America. She describes a social construct and economic system that affected mostly white middle class women, but resonated with all women(The 1960s in America). Feminist alo believed personal is political, especially when it came to equal pay,childcare, and abortion(The 1960s in America). Congress passed the Equal Pay Act of 1963. The failure of the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment in 1974( designed to guarantee equal rights for women)was mainly blocked by Phyllis Schlafly. Two supreme court cases that gave women choices over body were:Griswold v Connecticut (1965), dealt with contraception, Roe v Wade guaranteed a woman’s right to abortion (at least in the first

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