Part 1-
1) After reading the "Marriage and the Family" section, explain how the relationship of women to marriage and family is changing from Progressive views of just a few years earlier. Issues you might discuss: do women seem happy being housewives, what do they want, what are seen as the problems for women, how are these attitudes different from Progressivism. This should take more than three sentences. Directly reference (this can include quotation, are mention of the particular reading) the readings to support your assertions.
2) After reading the "Sex and Sexuality" section, you should get the impression that something significant has changed regarding single women and sexuality. What has changed? How is this "new" woman different than those of the Progressive era? What social forces are blamed for the change? What do you think (not something you see in the text) is causing this shift in female sexuality?
3) After reading "The ‘New' Woman" section, identify what makes these women "new" women compared to the Progressives? Explain why each individual woman is "new" (they all represent different types of the "new" woman). This should take at least four sentences.
4) After reading "Feminist: New Style", how does Bromley believe the "new" feminists differs from the women who fought and won the right to vote? Does she think the new style of feminism is better? How so?
5) Considering all of the readings in this PSA, how would you define the "new" woman? How were women's roles (sexual, economic, and as wives and mothers) reshaped by the 1920's?
Part 2-
1. Examine the three images (Rosie the Riveter, 1942, Van Heusen Tie Ad, 1951, Life Magazine, 1971) and the Enjoli Perfume commercial, 1977.
Using details you see, what do you think were social attitudes about women's relationship to men at work and home in each of the images?
Describe what you see as the change in the view of women over time, as it is represented in the images and video.
2. What does Friedan mean by the phrase "the problem that has no name"? What kinds of women seem to be excluded from her account of the problem?
3. What does the Manifesto mean by its final sentence: "This time we are going all the way"? Why does Redstockings believe that all men are oppressors of women?
4. Why does Schlafly believe that the Equal Rights Amendment would actually hurt women? How does Schlafly's picture of the status of women differ from that of the Redstockings Manifesto?