de Beauvoir[edit | edit source]
The Second Sex (1949, En. 1953)
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/de-beauvoir/2nd-sex/index.htm
WIDF[edit | edit source]
Women's International Democratic Federation
The Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF) was founded in December 1945 with the aim of preventing the recurrence of war and the resurgence of fascism for the sake of well being of the women and children; since the International Year of Women in 1975 main objectives are gender equality and empowering women; other demands are the elimination of nuclear weapons and reduction of military spending (Intl. Inst. of Soc. Hist.)
http://www.fdim-widf.com.br/indexingles.htm
Congress of American Women (Congressional Investigation)
http://www.archive.org/details/reportoncongress1949unit
Gerda Lerner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerda_Lerner
Women Beats[edit | edit source]
Joyce Johnson
http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,2189488,00.html
President's Commission on the Status of Women[edit | edit source]
Executive Order 10980 (1961)
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/jfkeo/eo/10980.htm
Helen Gurley Brown[edit | edit source]
Sex and the Single Girl (1962)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_and_the_Single_Girl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pntcBm2z8EQ
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058580/
Doris Lessing[edit | edit source]
The Golden Notebook
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Lessing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18IwEBHz0Lo
http://www.sawf.org/newedit/edit04162001/books.asp
Betty Friedan[edit | edit source]
The Feminist Mystique (1963)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Friedan
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2903805552537970436#
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/national/05friedan.html
http://www.h-net.org/~hst203/documents/friedan1.html
Civil Rights Act 1964[edit | edit source]
Title VII
keyword: sex
http://www.eeoc.gov/policy/vii.html
for a discussion of how "sex" got amended into the act see "Women's Rights" at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964
NOW (1966)[edit | edit source]
National Organization for Women "founded after EEOC's failure to enforce Title VII of Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- and Betty Friedan becomes its first president" (Green, Seeking Justice: 419)
Executive Order 11375: Federal Employment and Contracts[edit | edit source]
keyword: sex
http://www.uhuh.com/laws/donncoll/eo/1967/EO11375.TXT
http://oeo.od.nih.gov/policiesresources/fwp.html
'68[edit | edit source]
http://scholar.alexanderstreet.com/display/WASM/Women%27s+Movement+Chronology+1968