Posted: April 25th, 2025

Gender, Women, and Rights in the 1950s Discussion

 2.  Identify two historical developments during the 1950s or early 1960s that you see as shaping women’s 20th century women’s history greatly. How did those developments shape women’s experiences? How do Mexican-American women’s experiences play into discussions of 1950s middle class domesticity? Please remember to make reference to historical examples from the reading assigned  reading this week. Question 2 is about the 1950s and early 1960s based on this week’s reading!!! 

WEEK 11: Women, Gender, Rights, in the 1950s: Domesticity Revisited?

Title Citation

Introduction to The Feminine Mystique by
Betty Friedan

Betty Friedan, The Feminine
Mystique,(New York: Norton & Co.) 1963.
https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/ows/s
eminars/tcentury/FeminineMystique

Beyond the Feminine Mystique by Joanne
Meyerowitz (log in to the Library!)

Meyerowitz, Joanne. “Beyond the
Feminine Mystique: A Reassessment of
Postwar Mass Culture, 1946- 1958.” The
Journal of American History 79, no. 4
(1993): 1455–82.
https://doi.org/10.2307/2080212.

Gendered Invisibility: Ethnic Mexican Women
in the Bracero Program Read/Watch Intro.
Read Documents 1, 3, 6, 8 (Be advised:
derogatory language toward Mexican
Immigrants from the time period.We can
process this in the discussion forum and hive
mind document.), 9, 10, 18, 22,24 (Sign in to
the Library).

Gendered Invisibility: Ethnic Mexican Women and
the Bracero Program, Documents selected and
interpreted by Alina R. Méndez. (Alexandria, VA:
Alexander Street, 2021).
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American Women’s History:: A Very Short
Introduction Ch. 4, pp 98-101
Please read this section as background
information and focus discussion forum on
readings that turn you into the historian of
women, using skills you’ve developed this
semester.

Susan Ware: American Women’s History: A
Very Short Introduction

1950s Hive mind document For asking questions, definitions, shared
reading notes, and observations prior to
discussion forum.

https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/ows/seminars/tcentury/FeminineMystique

https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/ows/seminars/tcentury/FeminineMystique

https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/ows/seminars/tcentury/FeminineMystique

https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/ows/seminars/tcentury/FeminineMystique

https://www-jstor-org.proxylib.csueastbay.edu/stable/pdf/2080212

https://doi.org/10.2307/2080212

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