Second Wave Feminism Bibliography

Primary Sources

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Primary Sources (All Bibliographical Information is in the Metadata Embedded in the Images) 

Key Figures

  • Pauli Murray
  • Flo Kennedy
  • Betty Friedan
  • Shirley Chisholm
  • Phyllis Schlafly
  • Gloria Steinem

The Feminine Mystique 1963

  • The Feminine Mystique 1963 Orginal Cover

N.O.W 1966

  • Logo: National Organization for Women
  • N.O.W. Statement of Purpose
  • Group portrait of NOW Founders

The Women's March of 1970

  • "Women's Strike for Peace - And Equality", Women's Strike for Equality, New York, Fifth Avenue.

“Ms.” Magazine 1972

  • Ms. Vol 1, No. 1
  • Gloria Steinem in Ms. office, circa 1970's
  • Heaven Won't Protect the Working Girl (1-3)

The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) 1972

  • First Lady Betty Ford Working at Her Desk in the East Wing of the White House
  • "The Phyllis Schlafly Report" Volume 7, Number 1, Section 2

Roe v. Wade 1973

  • Norma McCorvey (Jane Roe) and her lawyer Gloria Allred on the steps of the Supreme Court, 1989
  • An Open Letter to YOUR Representive 

National Women's Conference 1977

  • U.S. Rep. Barbara Jordan, D-Houston, gives the keynote address at the National Women's Conference in Houston as the IWY Commission's Bella Abzug, from left, first lady Rosalynn Carter and former first ladies Betty Ford and Lady Bird Johnson listen
  • Houston Equal Rights for Women Welcoming Rally flier
  • Bella Abzug, Betty Freidan, and Billie Jean King Accompany Torch Relay Runners into Houston
  • Letter from Gloria D. Scott to Marjorie Randal, 1977 November 10

Secondary/Multimedia Sources

  1. Barakso, Maryann. “Inventing NOW: Principles and Processes, 1966–1971.” In Governing NOW: Grassroots Activism in the National Organization for Women, 11–38. Cornell University Press, 2004.
  2. CANE, MARILYN B. “Whose Right to Life? Implications of Roe v. Wade.” Family Law Quarterly 7, no. 4 (1973): 413–32. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25739071.
  3. CBS Sunday Morning. "Gloria Steinem on the history of Ms. Magazine." Youtube, September 17, 2023. https://youtu.be/vwV9P36OyGo?si=sjZ7HvAP-FAFFNDH
  4. Doherty, Maggie. 2020. “Feminist Factions United and Filled the Streets for This Historic March.” The New York Times, August 26, 2020, sec. U.S. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/us/womens-strike-for-equality.html.
  5. Hartmann, Susan M. 2002. “Pauli Murray and the ‘Juncture of Women’s Liberation and Black Liberation.’” Journal of Women’s History 14 (2): 74–77. https://doi.org/10.1353/jowh.2002.0044.
  6. Hilden, Patricia. Review of Women’s History: The Second Wave, by Ellen Dubois, Sheila Fletcher, Brian Harrison, Marion Kaplan, James McMillan, F. K. Prochaska, Leila Rupp, Norbert Soldon, and Leslie Woodcock Tentler. The Historical Journal 25, no. 2 (1982): 501–12. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2638839.
  7. Jad Abumrad. More Perfect. "Part 1: The Viability Line" S4 E5. Apple Podcasts, June 8, 2023. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/part-1-the-viability-line/id1117202653?i=1000616129472
  8. Miller, Eric C. “Phyllis Schlafly’s ‘Positive’ Freedom: Liberty, Liberation, and the Equal Rights Amendment.” Rhetoric and Public Affairs 18, no. 2 (2015): 277–300. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.2.0277.
  9. Oyez. “Roe v. Wade.” Oyez, 2022. https://www.oyez.org/cases/1971/70-18
  10. Phyllis Schlafly Eagles. "Phyllis Schlafly debates Betty Friedan on ERA." Youtube, January 28, 1976. https://youtu.be/WncN6PWEMGo?si=pimtUK8Y4VDE34Ky
  11. Siegel, J. A. (2020). American women on the move: The inside story of the National Women’s Conference, 1977 Shelah Gilbert Leader and Patricia Rusch Hyatt. Feminism & Psychology, 30(2), 267-270. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353519870212
  12. Stoecklein, Anna. The Story of Woman. "S3 E9. From 1963 to Today: How “The Feminine Mystique” Lives On." Apple Podcasts, March 3, 2024. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s3-e9-from-1963-to-today-how-the-feminine-mystique-lives-on/id1610515650?i=1000647885670
  13. Texas Archive of the Moving Image‌. "Equal Rights for Women Rally (1977)." Texas Archive of the Moving Image‌ Website, November 18, 1977. https://texasarchive.org/2024_00882
  14. Texas Archive of the Moving Image‌. "National Women's Conference Opening Ceremony (1977)."Youtube, November 18, 1977. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyxbH7DPSro
  15. WHITTIER, NANCY. “Everyday Readers and Social Movements: Considering the Impact of The Feminine Mystique.” Gender and Society 27, no. 1 (2013): 112–15. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23486622.
  16. Zeitz, J. “Rejecting the Center: Radical Grassroots Politics in the 1970s — Second-Wave Feminism as a Case Study.” Journal of Contemporary History 43, no. 4 (2008): 673–88. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40543229.
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Second Wave Feminism Bibliography