Essay Quiz


1		Assess the factors that supported domestic ideology in the 1950s and the impact of domestic ideology on women's lives.



2		Consider the following assertion: "All of the impulses that characterized the 1960s had antecedents in the 1950s." To what extent does this generalization fit women's history?



3		Compare/contrast Helen Gurley Brown's book, Sex and the Single Girl (1962), with Betty Friedan's book, The Feminist Mystique (1963). In what ways does each book represent its era? What are the similarities and differences between the two authors' messages?



4		Consider the experience of African-American women at mid-century. In what ways did it differ from that of the white majority and in what ways was it similar?



5		Consider the causes and effects of the new feminism of the late 1960s. What accounts for the feminist movement's rapid impact on American society?



6		Compare/contrast the academic field of Women's Studies, a product of second-wave feminism, with the academic field of Home Economics, which had its origins in the Progressive Era.



7		Compare/contrast the early stages of the feminist movement in the 1960s and 1970s with the early stages of the woman suffrage movement, in the late 1860s and 1870s. What are the differences and/or similarities?

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