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Ellen Herman

Department of History, University of Oregon


 

HIST 203, Week 8, Key Terms

illegitimacy

sexual liberalism

Kinsey reports

Playboy, first issue published 1953

homophile movement

Stonewall riots, 1969

homosexuality removed from catalogue of mental disorders by the American Psychiatric Association, 1973

gender

second-wave feminism

“The personal is political”

OPEC oil crisis, 1973

Betty Friedan

Alfred Kinsey

New Right

Anita Bryant and the “Save Our Children” campaign

Phyllis Schlafly, Stop ERA

Nixon resigns after the Watergate scandal, August 1974

televangelists

Jimmy Carter, the first “born-again” president, elected 1976

Reagan Democrats

Reaganomics (supply-side or trickle-down economics)

Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996

the Kinsey scale

The Feminine Mystique (1963)

National Organization for Women (NOW), founded 1966

women’s liberation and liberal feminism