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    1960’s Gender

    By: Kaitlyn, Nick, Kamille, & Darril


    Timeline
    - Nov 1, 1955 – Apr 30, 1975: Vietnam war rages on
    - 1961: President Kennedy reports on the Status of Women.
    - 1963: Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique
    - 1963: Equal Pay Act passes
    - July 2, 1964: Civil Rights act passed
    - Oct. 20, 1965: Higher Education Act passed
    - 1966: National Organization for Women (NOW) is founded
    Femininity
    To be feminine in the 1960s, it was primarily expected for
    women to still be this fragile figure and follow this “ideal
    women” stereotype. However, during this time, the 60s
    especially gave rise to the second wave of feminism and
    allowed women to take action and have a greater part in society
    and public life. This set the traditional role of femininity to be
    challenged and we often see women criticized because they
    were getting out of the domestic sphere.
    Interview
    Alice Oostdyk: “I think it was a, yes, I definitely think that
    that was typical. I, at that point, really didn’t know many
    women who were working. Most of them were stay-at-
    home moms unless, from an economic standpoint, they
    needed to go out to work....because the business was in
    the house, she was always in the home.”
    Quote
    “‘It just doesn’t seem right to watch a female leap
    clumsily over the bars, throw the weights awkwardly or
    scamper over a track in unladylike fashion. They lose all
    their daintiness and appeal. Besides, the Paris
    couturiers add to the woman’s attractiveness much
    better than do the designers of track suits, even skimpy
    ones.’’’ (Daley 20).
    Leave it to Beaver

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgIPcOdnyxA
    “Professions for Women” - Virginia Woolf
    "Even when the path is nominally open —
    when there is nothing to prevent a woman
    from being a doctor, a lawyer, a civil servant
    — there are many phantoms and obstacles,
    as I believe, looming in her way” (Woolf 528).
    Masculinity
    To be masculine in the 1960s, it was expected for
    men to still be the dominant or prominent figure in
    society, along with the idea of them maintaining this
    physically fit stereotype. Overall, you were expected
    to remain tough and independent, avoid showing
    vulnerability, and take more risks.
    JFK’s The Soft American

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yQth3QEXtA
    Blueprint of Manhood
    “In our study, we hear men struggling with grief - which
    is a vulnerable state - and caregiving, which is
    associated with femininity… If they must cry, men feel
    it’s to be done in the home, away from others, even
    when their spouse has died. They have to renegotiate
    their masculinity in order to deal with what life is
    bringing their way.”
    Quote
    “On a parallel track, nonmilitary war resisters represented
    another emerging variation on American masculinity — young
    men who just said no to a war increasingly averred by the Left
    to be an immoral colonialist adventure. One Vietnam-era
    slogan, promoted by Students for a Democratic Society, cast
    war resistance in a directly sexual light: ‘Girls say yes to guys
    who say no’” (Ireland).
    “Being a Man” - Paul Theroux
    “In many ways, American culture does little more for a
    man than prepare him for modeling clothes in the L.
    L. Bean catalogue. I take this as a personal insult
    because for many years I found it impossible to admit
    to myself that I wanted to be a writer. It was my guilty
    secret, because being a writer was incompatible with
    being a man” (Theroux 568).
    Works Cited
    “Council on Youth Fitness: “The Soft American”.” JFK Library,
    www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/JFKPOF/094/JFKPOF-094 -003#. Accessed 6 Feb. 2021.
    Gilreath, Erin Lea, et al. “From Field Days to Olympic Gold: How Black Women Revitalized Track and Field in the United States.”
    Physical Educator, vol. 74, no. 2, Jan. 2017. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?
    direct=true&db=eric&AN=EJ1143208&site=ehost-live.
    Ireland, Corydon. War and Changing Concepts of Masculinity. 7 Feb. 2008, news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2008/02/war-and-changing-
    concepts-of-masculinity/. Accessed 1 Feb. 2021.
    “JFK’s Soft America.” Coleman Ruiz, 1 Jan. 2017, colemanruiz.com/2017/01/01/jfks-soft-america/. Accessed 6 Feb. 2021.
    “June Cleaver on women's changing roles in the 1960s.” YouTube, uploaded by Sarah Gillette, 16 Mar. 2014,
    www.youtube.com/watch? v=IgIPcOdnyxA. Accessed 2 Feb. 2021.
    “LaSierra High PE Program.” Youtube, uploaded by TheLeanBerets, 19 Dec. 2012, www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yQth3QEXtA.
    Accessed 6 Feb. 2021.
    Works Cited
    “Older men cling to Masculinity of 1960s.” The Tribune, 20 Oct. 2016,

    www.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/science-technology/older -men-cling-to-masculinity-of-1960s-312323. Accessed 4 Feb.

    2021.

    Oostdyk, Alice. Interview by Jessica Oostdyk. Feminism and Changing Gender Roles in the 1960s and 1970s, 7 Mar. 2017, sites.lib.

    jmu.edu/hist150/2017/03/26/feminism-and-changing-gender-roles-in-the-1960s-and-1970s/. Accessed 1 Feb. 2021.

    Theroux, Paul. “On Being a Man.” The Language of Composition, 2nd edition, pg. 567- pg. 570. Accessed 4 Feb. 2021.

    “The Sixties: Moments in Time.” PBS, www.pbs.org/opb/thesixties/timeline/timeline_text.html. Accessed 4 Feb. 2021.

    “U.S. Timeline- The 1960s.” America’s Best History, americasbesthistory.com/abhtimeline1960.html. Accessed 4 Feb. 2021.

    Woolf, Virginia. “Professions for Women.” The Language of Composition, 2nd edition, pg. 528. Accessed 6 Feb. 2021.

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