Feminist Studies, Vol. 1, No. 3/4, Special Double Issue: Women’s History (Winter -Spring, 1973)

March of 1973 the revived  Berks are held at Rutgers.

 

Uses of “culture” are sill largely in association l with the male realm, mirroring the nature/culture divide of women’s liberation movement theroy.

Judith R. Walkowitz and Daniel J. Walkowitz refer to a  “repressive moral  culture imposed on women”

Linda Gordon “In a system that deprived women  of  the  opportunity to  make  extra- familial  contributions  to  culture,  it  was  inevitable  that they  should  be  more strongly identified  with  sex  than  men  were.”  Daniel  Scott Smith notes  “the centrality of attacks on male culture in such movements as temperance.”

Laura Oren refers to “Male Working Class Culture.”  Nancy Cott and Carroll Smith-Rosenberg two authors most strongly associated with the development of the concept of women’s culture didn’t even use the word culture in their articles.

Activist Jo Freeman, also a Ph.D. in sociology, presented summer of 1974 at APA, in which she argued that  “the major feminist issues [included] … building of  female culture”[1]

 

 


[1] Later published in published in acta sociologica 1975

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