s and practices that enforced the inferior status of women by discrimination in such matters as contract and property rights, employment and pay issues, and management of earnings and in matters related to sex and.More broadly, the growing feminist movement sought to change society's prevailing stereotypes of women as relatively weak, passive, and dependent individuals who are less rational and more emotional than men. Feminism sought to achieve greater freedom for women to work and to remain economically and psychologically independent of men if they chose. Feminists criticized society's prevailing emphasis on women as objects of sexual desire and sought to broaden both women's self-awareness and their opportunities to the point of equality with menHow does this apply to the play?The play is about Heidi Holland and her life in the 1960-70-80. She was a raging womans activist, a caring woman, and someone who didnt want to be bogged done by a relationship. She was the womens movement embodied. The line I like the best in the play is Peter talking to Heidi and he says she can separate love and sexual needs. I like that. That is a lot of what these women wanted, was to be human beings with minds rather than sex objects.Margaret "Peg" Strobel and Sue Davenport "The Chicago Women's Liberation Union: An Introduction"http://womenshistory.tqn.com/education/womenshistory/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.cwluherstory.com/CWLUAbout/about.htmlThe Chicago Women's Liberation Union (CWLU, 1969-1977), an early women's liberation group, organized around women's health and reproductive rights, education, economic rights, visual arts and music, sports, lesbian liberation and opposition to the war in Southeast Asia.Founded by women active in the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement and Students for a Democratic Society, the CWLU was noted for both its theory and its practice. The CWLU pamphlet," Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the ...
