Organize the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 27

Document Links:

Document 27.1 No More Miss America! (1968)

Document 27.2 GLORIA STEINEM, Women Freeing the Men, Too (1970)

Document 27.3 NATIONAL BLACK FEMINIST ORGANIZATION, Statement of Purpose (1973)

Document 27.4 PAT MAINARDI, The Politics of Housework (1970)

Document 27.5 PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY, What’s Wrong with “Equal Rights” for Women? (1972)

Organize the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 27

The following exercises provide an opportunity to use the sources collectively to respond to a guiding question.

Guiding Question: What issues inspired women to organize to achieve their own liberation in the 1960s, to what extent did the women’s liberation movement succeed in bringing women together, and how did it expose new conflicts that drove them apart?

Instructions

Below are three topics that might find a place in organizing an essay responding to the guiding question. This exercise asks you to identify which sources would provide relevant evidence for that topic. Select the best answers for each question. Choose ALL that apply. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

Question 27.16

1. Which of the sources provides specific evidence about the issues that motivated supporters of women’s liberation to organize the new movement? Choose ALL that apply.

R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 27.1: No More Miss America!
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 27.2: Gloria Steinem, Women Freeing the Men, Too
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 27.3: National Black Feminist Organization, Statement of Purpose
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 27.4: Pat Mainardi, The Politics of Housework
kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 27.5: Phyllis Schlafly, What’s Wrong with “Equal Rights” for Women?
Correct: Document 27.1: The New York Radical Women articulate their critiques of male-sanctioned norms of beauty and express their demands for social and cultural change on behalf of women. Document 27.2: Steinem expresses a critique of traditional gender norms and their impact on American society and describes the ways women’s liberation will benefit both men and women. Document 27.3: The NBFO states its position on the unique issues that black women face and the reason they have created their own organization. Document 27.4: Mainardi describes the ways women’s oppression manifests in intimate personal relationships, suggesting that feminists need to fight sexism in every area of life.
Incorrect: Document 27.5: Schlafly expresses her critique of the women’s liberation movement, suggesting that its success will threaten women’s privileged position in American society.

Question 27.17

2. Which of these documents provides specific evidence about the different conceptions of sexism and feminism that emerged within the women’s liberation movement? Choose ALL that apply.

R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 27.1: No More Miss America!
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 27.2: Gloria Steinem, Women Freeing the Men, Too
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 27.3: National Black Feminist Organization, Statement of Purpose
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 27.4: Pat Mainardi, The Politics of Housework
kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 27.5: Phyllis Schlafly, What’s Wrong with “Equal Rights” for Women?
Correct: Document 27.1: The New York Radical Women emphasize the ways sexist cultural assumptions promote unrealistic images of women and perpetuate the belief that women’s appearances are more important than their thoughts or actions. Document 27.2: Steinem describes sexism as something that hurts both men and women, not as a force that men direct against women. Document 27.3: The NBFO describes the particular combination of sexism and racism that damages and confines African American women. Document 27.4: Mainardi describes the ways that men employ sexist arguments and express sexist assumptions and behaviors in personal relationships.
Incorrect: Document 27.5: Schlafly writes from the perspective of someone who was outside the women’s liberation movement, not of a critic writing from within it.

Question 27.18

3. Which of the following documents provides specific evidence about the ways Americans argued in opposition to the women’s liberation movement and its goals? Choose ALL that apply.

kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 27.1: No More Miss America!
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 27.2: Gloria Steinem, Women Freeing the Men, Too
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 27.3: National Black Feminist Organization, Statement of Purpose
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 27.4: Pat Mainardi, The Politics of Housework
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 27.5: Phyllis Schlafly, What’s Wrong with “Equal Rights” for Women?
Correct: Document 27.2: Steinem describes the ways the media has denigrated the women’s movement and its goals. Document 27.3: The NBFO describes the ways the media has mischaracterized the women’s movement and the ways some black activists have criticized black women for supporting feminist goals. Document 27.4: Mainardi describes some of the arguments her husband made to discredit her feminism and her insistence that he share the housework. Document 27.5: Schlafly devotes her essay to articulating her opposition to the women’s movement, which she believes will damage American women’s position in society.
Incorrect: Document 27.1: The New York Radical Women devote themselves to criticizing the Miss America pageant and do not address arguments that have been wielded against the feminist movement.

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