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This paper is an attempt to describe in general terms the pattern of development of women's movements. One of the main problems concerns the mobilization of women to participate in such a movement. In solving this problem I find it zwcessary to define women first as members of a society and then as participants in a movement. I shall discuss women as a social category, as a collectivity, and as a group. Moreover I shall identify the women's movement as a collective actor and discuss two aspects of its mobilization potential: the mobilization of women in relation to each other, i.e. by their membership of a group, and in relation to the women's movement as a reference individual. The empirical data cited in the discussion should be regarded as illustrations and not, of course, as proofs. The model presented is the result of a theoretical exercise, and should be assessed on the basis of its potential value for a future empirical study of women's movements in Sweden. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Part V. Presents an outline of a course in the Rhetoric of American feminism. Postulates; Units of the course; Information on the rhetoric of socialist feminism.

The article discusses various issues related to women's educational aspirations. What impact is the Women's Liberation Movement having on women high school students of today, as they face important choices of career, marriage, and higher education? This research seeks to investigate the effects of sex role related attitudes, as well as family and school variables, on the aspirations of young women for higher education. In investigating the topic, an effort is made to explore a variety of specific sex role attitudes: respondent's assessment of the current status of women; opinions about such policy matters as the Equal Rights Amendment, day care, and abortion; patterns of friendship with both sexes; subjective importance of marriage, occupation, and parenthood; and future role choices such as importance of equal parent responsibility for childrearing. Family variables examined include the education and occupation of both parents, plus further information of the prestige, continuity, and satisfaction of employment for the mother, and parental pressure for academic achievement and for marriage. The investigation is carried out in two educational milieus constituting the school variables: a coeducational high school and an all-women's day school.

Focuses on the radical feminist criticism of D.H. Lawrence's 'Lady Chatterley's Lover.' Examples of anti-woman lines in the novel; Analysis of the erotic freedom for women advocated by the novel.

The article discusses various issues related to the future-orientation, career revokability, and role reciprocity among female graduate students. A popular assumption among college students is that American women are on the brink of a revolution, which will foster the realization of the goals of the earlier feminists. Social scientists have long underlined possible dysfunctions associated with the limited role definitions of the American female. In this descriptive study of one urban, midwestern, medium-sized university, it is apparent that as presently expressed by the subjects, there has been little overt attempt to change woman's role. Followers of sociologists Caroline Bird or Betty Friedan would have people believe that a revolution has occurred in the position to which women aspire in the culture. The present research was undertaken with the assumption that the middle class, upwardly mobile, educated women represented among the group of graduate assistants would give some evidence of this revolution. The most obvious conclusion is, that in the large majority of cases, this is simply not so.