Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies

Class 11: The Birth of the "Second Wave" of U.S. Feminism: 1960–66

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[FIOT] = Schneir, Miriam. Feminism in Our Time: The Essential Writings, World War II to the Present. Vintage, 1994. ISBN: 9780679745082.

• “The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VII” (FIOT, pp. 71–75).
• Pauli Murray and Mary O. Eastwood, “Jane Crow and the Law: Sex Discrimination and Title VII” (FIOT, pp. 76–88).
• “The Report of the President’s Commission on the Status of Women” (FIOT, pp. 38–47).
• The National Organization for Women, “Statement of Purpose” (1966) (FIOT, pp. 95–102) (authored by Betty Friedan).