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CLEP US History II

Category - Women's Rights

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The second wave of the women’s rights movement ultimately ended because:
  1. The Equal Rights Amendment was ratified, and the activists believed that they had accomplished their goals.
  2. The messages of the more militant activists in the movement resulted in a backlash against the women’s movement as a whole.
  3. Most members of the movement believed that the remaining obstacles would never be overcome.
  4. The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade (1972) split the movement, and it never recovered.
  5. Various acts of legislation, combined with changing social values, addressed most of the issues at the heart of the women’s liberation movement.
Explanation
Answer: B - After some members of the women’s liberation movement promoted exceedingly militant strategies, opposition groups took the most militant expressions of the cause and characterized the entire movement as virulent and “man-hating.” In time, the term “feminist” was corrupted and re-characterized as a negative term that described militant, aggressive women who hate men and “traditional” family values. By the resurgence of the conservative movement in the 1980s, women’s liberation had largely fallen out of favor.
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