- first wave focused on legal issues
- second wave focused more closely on social issues
- was a delayed response to 1940s post-world war 2 era
- suburbia, baby boom, expansion of capitalism, women were expected to work at home
- TEEWG published in 1937
- the second sex by simone de beauvior, kicked off american second wave feminism, she believed that woman were "the other" sex in society. that woman is not a gender, but sex, one becomes a woman.
- fought for reproductive rights
- wanted equality among the classes
- racial equality
Social classes: her change from Grandma, to Logan to Jody to Tea-Cake also shows her transition among the classes. Her first with her grandma was lower class, but also of women, shows development of "woman", she is resistant to Logan's commanding ways because she didn't grow up around men and didn't become the typical woman. Logan is middle class. Jody is upper class. Tea-Cake is lower class.
Racial equality: white children she played with. woman who was black but wanted to be white. they all worked for white people.
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