Something that Art Chantry received from Ferko Goldinger. Right wing backlash politics using the comic book medium to spread fear. This time targeting ”daughters of women’s liberation”. No bra-burning here or getting uppity about gender politics in a white male patriarchal society. Circa 1973. It would be humorous except much of this reactionary manipulation actually works in limiting dissent and defining the issues at their most base and hypocritical level.
Susan Faludi’s book Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women was published in 1991. It debunks the prevailing narrative that women are now fully equal and unhappy because of it. She argues instead that women have not yet achieved equality, and the pressure to stop the fight for equality is what makes women unhappy
Katelyn Mountford:Underpinning capitalism’s clawing back of the gains for women and working people, gains that were made by the mass movements in the 1960s, and ’70s (public child-care provision, award wages and benefits, affirmative action, and so on), is a sustained ideological campaign to erode the ideas and expectations of equality and fairness that were created by those social movements, including feminism.
The term “backlash” was first used in reference to the women’s liberation movement by Susan Faludi in her 1991 book of that title. It refers to an historically recurring ideological and propagandistic reaction against waves of mobilisation and politicisation among women. She showed that, in the advanced capitalist countries since the late 19th century, each increase in feminist struggle was met with, and quelled by, an ideological campaign aimed at demobilising the movement and paving the way for its gains to be reversed….
...Sue is quite successful pumping gas and Mr. Corbett suggests that she take it to the next level by donning a pair of tight fitting hot pants. Sue complies and business soars. So pleased with the results of her new "uniform," Mr. Corbett announces that he will be hiring another young lady to help Sue. Concerned for the fate of Mike's position at the station, Sue asks Mr. Corbett what will happen to him. Unaware Mike is standing behind him, Mr. Corbett tells her not to worry, "Business is business. Besides, he'll be going back to school soon." Mr. Corbett crosses the line by putting his hands on the teenager's shoulders...
The backlash that has followed the second wave of feminism in the 1960s and ’70s is the most concerted yet. It is based on two pillars, reflecting the two main gains of the second wave.
First is the notion that women’s paid work is secondary to their role as child-rearers and home-makers. This justifies and extends women’s concentration in casual waged work with little or no protection. The second is the idea that motherhood is natural and sacred, and therefore that women’s reproductive lives should be regulated by the state and the church.Read More:http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/26721
Art Chantry can be reached at Art@artchantry.com
ADDENDUM:
Mike quits and storms out. Sue bursts into tears and Mr. Corbett “consoles” Sue by giving her a raise and a highly inappropriate kiss on the lips. Mr. Corbett obviously did not get the memo that what we know today as sexual harassment was technically prohibited by the 1964 Civil Right Act’s Title VII!
Just in the nick of time, Sue’s mom arrives to pick her up. Though Ms. Kiernan doesn’t witness the kiss initiated by Mr. Corbett, she does see Sue’s skimpy outfit and immediately whisks her away from the scene — much to Sue’s relief. Interestingly, Sue’s mom places the blame on her, calling Sue a “little fool” rather than directly holding Mr. Corbett accountable….Read More: http://sequentialcrush.blogspot.com/2011/03/hot-pants-romance-young-loves-daughter.html
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