Sheila Tobias

Carl T. Tomizuka

Sheila Tobias

Point of View: The Professional Science Master’s Degree at Twenty

Sheila Tobias, Linda Strausbaugh

The Professional Science Master's Degree at Twenty.

Sheila Tobias, Linda Strausbaugh

Second-Generation Issues

Sheila Tobias

From 1968 through roughly 1975, legislative and enforcement victories came swiftly to feminist activists. One would not have thought that the reclassification of rape as a crime of assault would be controversial. But when second-wave feminists extended the idea of rape to …

The Emergence of Women's Rights as a Political Issue

Sheila Tobias

It is important to set any study of gender and politics in the context of the long history of the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century women&s;s rights movement because the second wave of feminism is in many ways cousin to the first. Three campaigns …

The Women's Movement Goes to Work

Sheila Tobias

The women who were attracted to feminism went to work almost immediately on the wide range of issues that seemed to be of common interest and urgency. The rebirth of feminism is usually dated as of 1966, with the founding of the …

Gender and Politics Redefined

Sheila Tobias

The women&s;s movement has changed the way we think about both gender and politics in the country. In feminist theory, gender, unlike sex, is defined as a socially constructed role , which means that it is the result of political arrangements and …

Feminism in the Postsuffrage Era

Sheila Tobias

Women&s;s experience, individual and collective, had been largely left out of historical writings. But feminist scholars, paying closer attention to those experiences, have unearthed new findings and reconceptualized mainstream history as well. Only feminist historians have taken seriously the fact that discrimination …

Betty Friedan and the Feminine Mystique

Sheila Tobias

The "feminine mystique, as Friedan defined it, was an ideology perpetrated in the post-World War II period to return women to what a male-dominated society liked to think of as their "rightful place." As is often the case with germinal thinkers, Betty …

Surviving the 1980s

Sheila Tobias

The demise of the Equal Rights Amendment—technically in 1982 but already prefigured in the late 1970s—was only a symptom of the nation&s;s careening toward the political Right. The analysis of poverty by gender represented a new way of looking at poverty in …

Feminism and Sexual Preference

Sheila Tobias

The term homophobia is relatively new, but antipathy to persons of homosexual leanings or behavior is not. Feminism did not invent lesbianism, and lesbianism is not coextensive with feminism. Feminism and lesbianism eventually came to accept that they had one common goal: …

The Origins of the Second Wave of Feminism

Sheila Tobias

This chapter talks about the origins of the second wave of feminism in America. It is known that the long period of feminist quiescence was not entirely without activism and that many women (in the 1930s, 1940s, and even 1950s) found their …