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This 5 page paper examines the three categories in which Lorber breaks down feminism. Feminism in general is defined and explored. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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extra time, as technology made her life of washing and scrubbing easier, she would do volunteer work or join a club. The womans life was a life of leisure. But
something happened around the 1960s to change all that. Women began to realize that it was not very fulfilling washing windows and changing diapers. They wanted something more. Feminism arose
and while there are certainly different brands of feminism, it is hard to get anyone to agree on exactly what feminism is. Even Judith Lorber (2001 cited in Schnittker, Freese
& Powell, 2003) claims that the meaning of the term feminism is not quite settled. And while feminism is hard to define and pin down, the timing of its
arrival is not. There have been movements for decades, but it seems to have resurfaced with a vengeance in the turbulent sixties. The revival of feminism in the sixties is
usually equated with the appearance of Betty Friedans arrival of the book The Feminine Mystique (Foner & Garraty, 1991). The 1963 best-seller found a receptive audience among suburban
women whose experiences Friedan captured accurately (1991). While her book was important for its challenge to the ideology of domesticity, other factors were contributory to the reemergence of feminism (1991).
At the time, there were many married women who were drawn into the job market and with the growing numbers of women graduating from college and the availability of
the birth-control pill, careers for women became a reality (1991). By the early sixties, the contradiction between the realities of paid work and higher education, on the side, and
domesticity on the other, could no longer be reconciled (1991). This sixties feminism exemplified the ideologies of the liberal feminist movement. It was clearly more in line with that type
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