Key feminist actors by Phillip Lloyd Myers https://padlet.com/pmyers7/833t71pcg12w Made with panache en-us 2017-09-12 01:11:20 UTC 2025-11-02 21:24:12 UTC hello@padlet.com Simone de Beauvoir- Simone became the foundation for the second wave of feminism, she was known for challenging the concept of gender suggesting that one is not born to behave as a women or man. De Beauvior published countless works of fiction and nonfiction during her lengthy career including 1949's 'The Second Sex' which is considered a pioneering work of the modern feminism movement. She also lent her voice to various political causes and traveled the world extensively. Simone de Beauvior and Jean Paul were known as a intellectual power couple of the 20th century. https://padlet.com/pmyers7/833t71pcg12w/wish/186998187 2017-09-12 23:48:23 UTC https://padlet.com/pmyers7/833t71pcg12w/wish/186998187 Germaine Greer https://padlet.com/pmyers7/833t71pcg12w/wish/186998234 1.Germaine Greer was involved in many women’s movements or feminism. She was mainly concerned with getting Women the right to vote. 
Her value to feminism is as a destructive force, tearing down stereotypes and smashing taboos. She strongly believes that women don't have to do what has always been expected of them: be good, get married, have kids, cook and clean. As a public intellectual, she was never ashamed of being clever and she demanded to be heard. 


2. Germaine Greer wrote her first book titled "The Female Eunuch" in 1970. The books main idea is that the traditional suburban normal family ruins womens sexuality.
]]> 2017-09-12 23:48:47 UTC https://padlet.com/pmyers7/833t71pcg12w/wish/186998234 Helen Reddy https://padlet.com/pmyers7/833t71pcg12w/wish/186998329 On  December 9, 1972, “I Am Woman,” written and recorded by Helen Reddy, topped the Billboard 100 chart. The song spoke to a generation of women inspired by Betty Friedan’s 1963 The Feminine Mystique to tackle “the problem that has no name.” The song reached the top of the charts less than a year after Congress sent the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification. Public opinion polls at the time suggested a majority of Americans supported the amendment. Women’s rights activists believed their long-hard fight for equality soon would be easier – state legislatures would surely approve the ERA. Few expected other women would stop the amendment’s ratification.
Reddy captured the mentality of women who no longer wanted to “pretend” second-class status was acceptable. Her lyrics  from "I am Women" dovetailed with the concerns raised in The Feminine Mystique. Increasingly women spoke publicly about gender discrimination, or they joined conscious raising sessions to explore the possibilities for social and cultural change. ]]> 2017-09-12 23:49:25 UTC https://padlet.com/pmyers7/833t71pcg12w/wish/186998329 Malala Yousafzai https://padlet.com/pmyers7/833t71pcg12w/wish/186998885 Malala Yousafzai is a pakistani activist for female education and the youngest nobel prize laureate. 
At the age of just 15 Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by the Taliban – she survived! Now she is a famous political activist, continuing her campaign for education, equality and peace for every child, everywhere. In light of her attainment of the Nobel Peace Prize this book is more relevant than ever. 

]]> 2017-09-12 23:53:24 UTC https://padlet.com/pmyers7/833t71pcg12w/wish/186998885 Phyllis Schafly https://padlet.com/pmyers7/833t71pcg12w/wish/186998962 2017-09-12 23:54:06 UTC https://padlet.com/pmyers7/833t71pcg12w/wish/186998962 Helen Reddy https://padlet.com/pmyers7/833t71pcg12w/wish/186999160 2017-09-12 23:55:29 UTC https://padlet.com/pmyers7/833t71pcg12w/wish/186999160 Helen Reddy https://padlet.com/pmyers7/833t71pcg12w/wish/186999241 2017-09-12 23:56:15 UTC https://padlet.com/pmyers7/833t71pcg12w/wish/186999241 Phyllis Schafly https://padlet.com/pmyers7/833t71pcg12w/wish/186999274 2017-09-12 23:56:29 UTC https://padlet.com/pmyers7/833t71pcg12w/wish/186999274 Helen Reddy https://padlet.com/pmyers7/833t71pcg12w/wish/186999303 2017-09-12 23:56:39 UTC https://padlet.com/pmyers7/833t71pcg12w/wish/186999303 Phyllis Schafly https://padlet.com/pmyers7/833t71pcg12w/wish/186999453 2017-09-12 23:57:52 UTC https://padlet.com/pmyers7/833t71pcg12w/wish/186999453 Helen Reddy https://padlet.com/pmyers7/833t71pcg12w/wish/186999464 2017-09-12 23:57:54 UTC https://padlet.com/pmyers7/833t71pcg12w/wish/186999464 Phyllis Schafly https://padlet.com/pmyers7/833t71pcg12w/wish/187794021 Which ideas or events are associated with Phyllis Schafly? Schafly is a conservative icon. Her ideologies are riddled with ironies; she fought for the ‘rights of the wife’ against the ERA, yet was an accomplished activist and writer with a law degree. Her career was itself a product of sexism. A young activist aspiring to make a name for herself in anti-communist foreign policy, Schlafly found door after door closed to her. In the end, it was her expertise as a housewife—not in foreign policy or law or politics—that allowed her to break through. It was a model of activism that would not have been possible had the second-wave feminist movement not asserted that issues like abortion and the division of household labour were political.]]> 2017-09-15 01:12:23 UTC https://padlet.com/pmyers7/833t71pcg12w/wish/187794021 https://padlet.com/pmyers7/833t71pcg12w/wish/187798851 2017-09-15 01:58:33 UTC https://padlet.com/pmyers7/833t71pcg12w/wish/187798851