Cold War Feminism

Betty friedan and the making of the feminine mystique.

Cold war feminism. Cold war feminism refers not only to the idea of gender justice but to the multiple explorations and explanations how feminism could be practiced and how gender equality could be achieved. Free shipping on qualifying offers. Why women went home again following world war ii the early cold war era was marked by a polarizing gender ideology. Women and gender it seems have a secure place in the theory and practice of international politics.

Betty friedan and the making of the feminine mystique. Cold war feminism is by nature understood as a transnational project. Cold war historian brian dooley says it was a monumental moment in the battle of ideas in the cold war exposing the publics on either side of the iron curtain to a discussion based on ideology. Women who had entered the manufacturing industry at unprecedented numbers during the war effort left or were pushed out of higher education and the workforce.

Feminism during the cold war john k. The american left the cold war and modern feminism culture. Beginning with the first un world conference on women in 1975 bulgaria played a key role. Throughout the un international decade for women 1975 1985 the committee of the bulgarian women s movement spearheaded efforts to improve women s rights on the global stage.

In the subsequent three decades since the end of the cold war a vast amount of feminist scholarship has been produced and gender has become central to united nations policy and discourse. Davenport rosie the riveter the prezi plan rosie the riveter star of a government campaign aimed at recruiting female workers for the munitions industry became perhaps the most iconic image of working women during the war. The cold war was a period of geopolitical tension between the soviet union and the united states and their respective allies the eastern bloc and the western bloc after world war ii the period is generally considered to span the 1947 truman doctrine to the 1991 dissolution of the soviet union the term cold is used because there was no large scale fighting directly between the two. The end of the cold war and the re evaluation of traditional ir theory during the 1990s opened up a space for gendering international relations.