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HEARNAP — Part 39
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_ Women and Youth gre the most progres. ive clement s anne Gas People.)
today. ‘The need for chanze is felt most cirectty by these’ two eo groups « th
shite youth are eisillusioned with the. materialistic ‘world of: ‘their parents!
generat ion and want some real’ values. bo embrace rather than the phoney
patriotic pap their country hands them. ‘jomen are beseiged daily in: ali. 7
areas bv sexism, The Yomen! 3 Movement," since abs resurgence, in’ the, sixties, |
has been continually strusnling ana growing to deal with _Dafpoot causes. "af
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and implications of sexism in peoples's ‘Lives. a a
‘In thel9sdts, the “lomen's Movement wags reborn, The roots of rebirth
tured in the Civil Rights Movement in the early sixties to great _
extent. Th original Voma 's Kovement in the U.S. had begun throughi"woners ):
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particiration -in the bolitionist ovement in the 1840' sy). in; ‘both. gases, _
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women came together tvith mm to fight in the nme of othe. oppressed people
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and. through that strunele and their treatment in it, came - ‘to recognize their
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The year. 19846 saw. founded the first women's organization, in’ years egiied
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the National Organization for Yomen(NOw) « This group works. on a fairly we,
traditional rolitical level, loboving for polltical and ‘ctvil equality ; for, ve
women, its membership is bas'tcally white,.middle- class,. professional vo men
who have Aomaterial stake in the establishment and who want: to" see it con~
tinue but weighted more toward their side. Meanwhile, +a "younger, more
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looselv- based Women's Movenent was _ prowing at the same time.) It rose up.in
reaction to the New Left, whit be male- dominated palitics of the, Civil Rights
ind Ant i-dar Nevements and also due to a rising national interest in. ‘women.
“he younger rm Ovement was anti-lLeadership and anarchistieally structured.
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