A Review of “A Strange Stirring:The Feminine Mystiqueand American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s”

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 81-81
Author(s):  
Stephanie J. Jass
Keyword(s):  
American Women ◽  
The 1960S

“There Were Rapes!”: Sexual Assaults of African American Women and Children in Jim Crow

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 934-950 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Thompson-Miller ◽  
Leslie H. Picca
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
White Men ◽  
Sexual Assaults ◽  
American Women ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Long Term Impact

Using data from 92 interviews, this article examines the narratives of African Americans’ experiences as children and young adults during Jim Crow in the Southeast and Southwest. It gives voice to the realities of sexual assaults committed by ordinary White men who systematically terrorized African American families with impunity after the post-Reconstruction south until the 1960s. The interviewees discuss the short- and long-term impact of physical, mental, emotional, and sexual assaults in their communities. We discuss the top four prevalent themes that emerged related to sexual assault, specifically (a) the normalization of sexual assaults, (b) protective measures to avoid White violence, (c) the morality of African American women, and (d) the long-term consequences of assaults on children.

Listening and Learning: Pacifica Radio Archives’ “American Women: 1963-1982” Digitization and Access Project

Collections ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jolene M. Beiser ◽  
Holly Rose McGee
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
Music Performance ◽  
Experimental Music ◽  
Lesbian Women ◽  
American Women ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Access Project

In 2016, the Pacifica Radio Archives in Los Angeles completed a two-year project in which more than 2,000 recordings of broadcasts from 1963 to 1982, produced by or about women, were digitized, recataloged, and made freely available for research and production. 1 This project, titled “American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982,” 2 demonstrated how women used the progressive, listener-supported Pacifica Radio studios and airwaves, first to communicate obstacles they faced in the 1960s due to their gender and then to spread information about the rising women's movement and, finally, to broadcast whatever they desired. Programs ranged from historical radio dramas to experimental music performance to programs discussing issues of intersectionality (e.g., lesbian women of color facing racism and homophobia within the women's movement). This article discusses women as both curators and creators of radio programming, the challenges of cataloging underrepresented and sometimes invisible creators and subjects, and the finished digitization and access project as an accessible and important collection where women are the subject.

From private to public? Changing perceptions of young women in Seventeen magazine, 1955–1965

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 292-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tessa Mazey-Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Exchange Relationship ◽  
Letters To The Editor ◽  
American Women ◽  
Cultural Ideals ◽  
Seventeen Magazine ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Teen Magazine ◽  
Over Time

As a form of popular culture, magazines provide a lens through which historians can examine the dominant attitudes and values of a society. This article examines the portrayal of young American women in the popular teen magazine, Seventeen magazine, during the period 1955–1965. The study documents and analyses the messages conveyed within the magazine regarding ideals concerning feminine behaviour and appearance. Seventeen provides an opportunity to investigate both the production and reception of the cultural ideals for young American women as the decade of the 1950s ends and that of the 1960s begins. I argue that the letters-to-the-editor represented a public platform in which readers could voice opinions, express identities, engage in debates and communicate with each other. In this way, it is possible to see a change in the framing of women’s roles over time; a change that occurred not via a purely ‘top-down’ processes, but via and exchange relationship between Editors, writers and readers, and indeed between the readers themselves.

American Women in the 1960s: Changing the Future.

1994 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 822
Author(s):  
Susan M. Hartmann ◽  
Blanche Linden-Ward ◽  
Carol Hurd Green
Keyword(s):  
American Women ◽  
The Future ◽  
The 1960S

Connie Corey and Doris Wilson

Lovie ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Yarger
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Birth Control ◽  
Tubal Ligation ◽  
Home Births ◽  
American Women ◽  
First Child ◽  
Breech Birth ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The 1960S

Two African American women whose babies Lovie delivered in the 1960s, Connie Corey and Doris Wilson, recount their experiences of having Lovie Shelton as their midwife for their home births. Doris Wilson tells the story of the breech birth of her first child, how Lovie urged her to get birth control, and how a doctor refused to tie her tubes after the birth of her third child, insisting she was too young to make such a decision. Doris Wilson also describes the unsatisfactory hospital birth of her seventh child and how she was finally able to have a tubal ligation. Finally, Mrs. Wilson explains her philosophy of midwives as “God’s chosen” and the difference between seeing with the natural eye and the spiritual eye; the latter is a gift she attributes to Mrs. Shelton. The narrator explores the phenomenon of being prayed over while doing documentary fieldwork.

Japanese Harlequin Romances as Transcultural Woman's Fiction

1989 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chieko Irie Mulhern
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Nathaniel Hawthorne ◽  
Women's Literature ◽  
American Women ◽  
Postwar Japan ◽  
Generic Term ◽  
Romance Fiction ◽  
Best Sellers ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Full Century

My country “is now wholly given over to a d—d mob of scribbling women,” goes one of the most frequently quoted gender-related adages. Japanologists might be tempted to attribute this uncourtly utterance to a learned nobleman of Heian Japan (794–1185) embittered by the outpouring of vernacular narratives from women's writing brushes that were eclipsing male endeavors to emulate Chinese classics, or to an exasperated modern Japanese novelist in reference to the neo-Heian phenomenon, namely, the renaissance of women's literature in postwar Japan. Actually it was Nathaniel Hawthorne (1855:141) who made the now infamous sexist remark in chagrin at American women who were churning out best-sellers in force. Thereafter, this phenomenon abated for a full century, but since the 1960s, Western women writers have made a glorious resurgence, marked by unprecedented degrees of output and worldwide market domination in a genre known as the romance fiction. The title of the first romance series and the name of its publisher, Harlequin, has become something like a generic term with multiple signification.

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