Spring 2014 Brown Bag Lunch Series Join us on the 2nd Friday of the month at NOON at the Women’s Center - Student Union - Room 421G

February 14

March 14

April 11

Part 1: Awakening

Part 2: Changing the World

Part 3: Charting a New Course

The story of the birth of the modern Women’s Movement. When Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique came out in 1963, millions of American women felt the constraints of 1950s post-war culture, which confined them to the home or to lowpaying, dead end jobs. At the same time, another group of women were emerging from the anti-war and civil rights movement determined to achieve their own revolution.

In the early 1970s, feminism became a force that reshaped the relationships between men and women in the most fundamental ways. Divorce rates spiked as women chafed under their traditional roles but, where men could adapt, marriages became stronger than ever. With the widespread adoption of the contraceptive pill, women’s sexuality was freed from the constant worry over pregnancy.

As the Movement achieved long-sought goals, a new generation of women were re-evaluating some of its most basic assumptions, especially the balance between work and family. By the 2000s, the Movement was again under attack from conservatives seeking to rollback abortion and contraception laws, and by younger women fleeing the very word “feminism.”

MAKERS: Women Who Make America, as seen on CPTV, tells the remarkable story of the most sweeping social revolution in American history, as women have asserted their rights to a full and fair share of political power, economic opportunity, and personal autonomy. It’s a revolution that has unfolded in public and private, in courts and Congress, in the boardroom and the bedroom, changing not only what the world expects from women, but what women expect from themselves. Find more information at http://www.makers.com/

University of Connec cut Women’s Center Student Union, 4th Floor, Room 421 Phone: 860-486-4738

Co-sponsored with AFSCME Council 4 and the UCPEA Women’s Issues Committee.

Location is wheelchair accessible. For more information contact the Women’s Center.