What do you understand the liberated woman to be?

A liberated woman refers to a feminist who pushes for more equality for women. Liberated women don’t accept their society’s traditional values or restrictions on behavior. They want things to be equal among men and women. In 1960 a group of liberated women fought sexism in culture and politics to try to change the expectations of what women should be doing when it came to “house caring” and their behavior outside the home.

How might the liberated woman be important for women’s liberation?

A liberated woman is important for women’s liberation because they are going against the norms of society and fighting for equal rights for all. By stepping out of the traditional norms they are able to prove that it is possible for women to work and a man to care for the home for example. It can relieve tension in the home when work is equally split since now the load of the house won’t be on the women.

How do these pieces show that “the personal is political”?

Reading The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm By Anne Koedt to see how society is stuck in traditional roles and isn’t willing to compromise and adjust. When the women are now tried and aren’t able to be sexually stimulated and they are claiming that organism failure is caused by frigidity and advising women with frigidity to seek psychiatric care. Men have big egos so do know they aren’t pleasing a woman sexually they needed something to appease the men population. For a man to determine if a woman is in need of psychiatric care due to not being pleased vaginal was the most personal I have seen in politics. There are other factors that come to mind when dealing with a vaginal orgasm and mentally draining from maintaining a home all day can be a big trigger because all you want to do next is lay down and relax. “The Politics of Housework” show a detailed fight for equality within a home. Knowing that when she is on her way home that is her second shift and she just wanted help from a partner, there wasn’t any time for her to relax and reset after a day. Both articles show that the “personal is political” because they are shadowing women in the light of home takers and telling them how to act in bed sexually.