17 Second-wave feminism and its discontents

Primary Source Text: Excerpts from The Feminine Mystique by Betty Freidan: https://www.amphi.com/cms/lib/AZ01901095/Centricity/Domain/883/The%20Feminine%20Mystique%20excerpts.pdf

Primary Source Text: Kate Millet, “Sexual Politics,” 1968: https://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/millett-kate/sexual-politics.htm

Primary Source Text: Johnnie Tillmon, “Welfare is a Women’s Issue,” 1972: https://msmagazine.com/2021/03/25/welfare-is-a-womens-issue-ms-magazine-spring-1972/

Primary Source Text: Audre Lourde, “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference,” 1984: https://www.colorado.edu/odece/sites/default/files/attached-files/rba09-sb4converted_8.pdf

Primary Source Text: Phyllis Schlafly interview on why feminism has made women unhappy: https://www.npr.org/2014/07/21/333582322/phyllis-schlafly-explains-why-feminism-has-made-women-unhappy

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