A Nurse's Story | Historical Context
Women’s Rights and Political Change
The 1960s and 1970s were decades of remarkable political and cultural unrest in the United States, as young adults questioned vigorously their government’s foreign policies and indifference to deeply rooted inequalities at home. As had been the case in the late nineteenth century, when female suffrage was in the forefront of political debates, women mobilized dramatically in support of civil rights, antiwar and antipoverty issues, and labor movements. Many of the younger women of the era subscribed to a new feminism that...
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