| A. | Network-dominated television in the 1970s | ||
| 1. | Networks sought "sponsors" for broadly appealing programs | ||
| 2. | Shift toward young urban and suburban viewers | ||
| a. | Some programming became increasingly sophisticated and controversial (All in the Family) | ||
| b. | Implications | ||
| B. | Challenges to network domination during the 1980s | ||
| 1. | Growth of independent stations | ||
| a. | Fox Television | ||
| b. | Others | ||
| 2. | Growth of cable-based industry | ||
| 3. | MTV | ||
| C. | Debate over role of television | ||
| 1. | FCC attempts to "dedicate" some television viewing to "family" programming | ||
| a. | Reasons for regulations | ||
| b. | Television industry cries "censorship" | ||
| 2. | Growing role of television programming in American culture | ||
| A. | Historical connection to 1960s activism | ||
| 1. | Brief overview of 1960s social activism | ||
| 2. | Connections with women's movement | ||
| B. | New women's movement | ||
| 1. | Changing role of women in society (1960-1995) | ||
| 2. | Reaction to Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique | ||
| C. | Goals of women's movement | ||
| 1. | Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) | ||
| a. | Called for end to sex discrimination in employment, housing, and education | ||
| b. | Opposition to, and defeat of, ERA | ||
| 2. | Growing concern with gendered division of power | ||
| a. | Concern for relationships between political and personal issues (for example, housework, child rearing, and so on) | ||
| b. | Explosion of women's rights-oriented organizations | ||
| c. | Traditional male-only organizations crumbled | ||
| D. | Diversity of feminist thought | ||
| 1. | Growth of black feminism | ||
| 2. | Debates over pornography and sexual harassment | ||
| a. | Differences among feminists themselves | ||
| b. | Supreme Court ruling of 1986 on sexual harassment | ||
| 3. | Symbolic role of Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas case | ||
| a. | Brought issues of sexual harassment to forefront | ||
| b. | Significant gains for women in elections of 1992 | ||
| A. | Historical connection to "old right" | ||
| 1. | Conservatives such as William F. Buckley, Jr. and Phyllis Schlafly | ||
| 2. | Opposed to liberal social and political policies | ||
| B. | Neoconservatives | ||
| 1. | Liberal heritage of neoconservatives | ||
| 2. | Bolted the party with George McGovern candidacy | ||
| a. | Denounced feminism | ||
| b. | Defended capitalism | ||
| C. | Religious Right | ||
| 1. | Mobilized after Roe v. Wade (1972) | ||
| a. | Rise of fundamentalists and evangelists | ||
| b. | Opposition to abortion and defense of "family values" | ||
| 2. | Rise of religious broadcasting as a political force | ||
| a. | Jerry Falwell, Listen America | ||
| b. | Pat Robertson and cable television | ||
| D. | "Fringe" groups on the far right | ||