nt that she is a feminist from the opening of the play. She is very much the "I am women, hear me roar" type. It starts with her not wanting to go to the high school dance, then when she demands the same rights as Scoop in his eyes. It comes up again in the restaurant in the 80s when she says that."I feel we didnt make any mistakes." Through out the play, it pops up. For the general population of stage actresses who will play this part in the next fifty years, they will have never known the womens movement, first hand. And in schools today, then dont dredge on it. It happened, lets move on. So this would be helpful to all the future Heidis out there.Encyclopedia Britannica "Women's Liberation Movement"http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/6/0,5716,79446+1,00.htmlMeanwhile, the economic conditions underlying women's inferior (or at least dependent) status were changing as women had fewer children. The growth of the service sector in the Western world's economies in the decades following World War II also helped create new types of jobs that could be done as well by women as by men. All these factors made growing numbers of women aware that society's traditional notions of them had failed to change as rapidly as women's actual living conditions had. In addition, the Civil Rights Movement in the United States during the 1960s inspired women to try to obtain better conditions for themselves through similar campaigns of mass agitation and social criticism.A milestone in the rise of modern feminism was Simone de Beauvoir's book Le Deuxime Sexe (The Second Sex), which became a worldwide best-seller and raised feminist consciousness by appealing to the idea that liberation for women was liberation for men too. Another major work was The Feminine Mystique, published in 1963 by Betty Friedan, an American. In 1966 Friedan and other feminists founded the National Organization for Women. These organizations sought to overturn law...
