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IB History: Second-wave feminism and Tunisia — notes, maps and essay plans

Why protest movements emerge, how they change the law, and whom they leave behind: women’s rights from the jury box to the UN, and twenty-eight days that toppled a dictator in Tunisia.

This page gathers the atlas’s IB notes: where each of its 12 chapters fits the syllabus, the concepts and evidence it supports, practice questions with model essay plans, primary sources, and starting points for the Internal Assessment.

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Chapter by chapter

The atlas holds 72 points of evidence and 35 primary sources across 12 chapters. Chapters 1 and 2 are free, so their evidence is shown here in full; for the others you get one point and the practice question, and the rest waits in the atlas. Each chapter title opens the chapter’s free page, with the full explanation.

1. The Problem That Has No Name

CHAPTER 1 · 1945–1963 · CONCEPTS: CAUSATION, SIGNIFICANCE

Paper 1 · Protest and ChangePaper 1 · Protest and Change: Second-wave feminismPaper 2 · Popular Movements: Why did popular movements emerge?Paper 3 · The Americas, section 11.11

EVIDENCE TO USE · ALL 6 POINTS (A FREE CHAPTER)

  1. In Hoyt v. Florida (1961) the Supreme Court upheld a Florida law that kept women off jury lists unless they volunteered, reasoning that woman was “still regarded as the center of home and family life”.
  2. In 1961 three states, Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina, barred women from juries entirely, and eighteen more let women claim exemption for their sex alone, which shows that the vote had not made women equal citizens.
  3. By 1960 about a third of married American women were in paid work, yet full-time women earned only 60.7 per cent of men’s median pay, a contradiction that turned the ideal of domesticity into a grievance.
  4. Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique (19 February 1963), based on a 1957 survey of her Smith College classmates, sold more than a million copies and gave educated women’s unhappiness a name.
  5. President Kennedy’s Commission on the Status of Women, created on 14 December 1961 and chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt, documented unequal pay and laws and led to state commissions in all fifty states by 1967.
  6. The Equal Pay Act of 10 June 1963 banned paying women less for “equal work”, but because most jobs were segregated by sex, women’s earnings stayed near 60 per cent of men’s until the late 1970s.

2. Organising for Equality

CHAPTER 2 · 1963–1970 · CONCEPTS: CHANGE, PERSPECTIVES

Paper 1 · Protest and Change: Second-wave feminismPaper 2 · Popular Movements: How did they create change?Paper 3 · The Americas, section 11.11

EVIDENCE TO USE · ALL 6 POINTS (A FREE CHAPTER)

  1. On 8 February 1964 Howard Smith of Virginia proposed adding “sex” to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act; the amendment passed by 168 votes to 133, giving women a federal ban on job discrimination.
  2. In its first year about a third of the complaints the EEOC received concerned sex discrimination, yet officials treated the clause as a “fluke”, which is why NOW was founded on 30 June 1966.
  3. NOW’s strategy of litigation paid off in Weeks v. Southern Bell (1969), when a federal appeals court ruled that Title VII overrode a Georgia rule barring women from jobs requiring lifting over 30 pounds.
  4. At Atlantic City on 7 September 1968 a few hundred radical feminists protested against the Miss America pageant; nothing was burned, but the press invented the “bra-burner”, which made the movement famous and easy to mock.
  5. In June 1968, 187 sewing machinists at Ford’s Dagenham plant struck for three weeks, halting car production and winning a rise from 85 to 92 per cent of the male rate for their grade.
  6. Britain’s Equal Pay Act received royal assent on 29 May 1970 and came into force in December 1975; women’s hourly pay rose from about 63 to 76 per cent of men’s between 1970 and 1977.

3. The Personal Is Political

CHAPTER 3 · 1968–1975 · CONCEPTS: CHANGE, CONSEQUENCE

Paper 1 · Protest and Change: Second-wave feminismPaper 2 · Popular Movements: How did they create change?Paper 3 · The Americas, section 11.11

EVIDENCE TO USE · 1 OF 6

Practice question: Compare and contrast the ways in which campaigners achieved abortion law reform in the United States and France, 1969–1975.

5 more points of evidence, 3 primary sources and the model plan for this question are in the IB notes of chapter 3 in the atlas.

4. Who Was Left Out?

CHAPTER 4 · 1970–1981 · CONCEPTS: PERSPECTIVES, SIGNIFICANCE

Paper 1 · Protest and Change: Second-wave feminismPaper 2 · Popular Movements: What was their impact?Paper 3 · The Americas, section 11.11

EVIDENCE TO USE · 1 OF 6

Practice question: Examine the reasons why Black, Chicana and poor women organised separately from the mainstream women’s movement in the United States in the 1970s.

5 more points of evidence, 3 primary sources and the model plan for this question are in the IB notes of chapter 4 in the atlas.

5. The ERA and the Backlash

CHAPTER 5 · 1972–1982 · CONCEPTS: CAUSATION, PERSPECTIVES

Paper 1 · Protest and Change: Second-wave feminismPaper 2 · Popular Movements: How were they challenged?Paper 3 · The Americas, section 11.11

EVIDENCE TO USE · 1 OF 6

Practice question: To what extent was the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment the result of the campaign led by Phyllis Schlafly?

5 more points of evidence, 4 primary sources and the model plan for this question are in the IB notes of chapter 5 in the atlas.

6. A Global Movement

CHAPTER 6 · 1975–1985 · CONCEPTS: CHANGE, PERSPECTIVES

Paper 1 · Protest and Change: Second-wave feminismPaper 2 · Popular Movements: What was their impact?

EVIDENCE TO USE · 1 OF 6

Practice question: Evaluate the significance of the UN Decade for Women (1976–1985) for women outside the Western world.

5 more points of evidence, 3 primary sources and the model plan for this question are in the IB notes of chapter 6 in the atlas.

7. Bourguiba’s Tunisia

CHAPTER 7 · 1956–1987 · CONCEPTS: CONTINUITY, CHANGE

Paper 1 · Protest and Change: Tunisia 2010–2015Paper 2 · Authoritarian Rule: How was it maintained?

EVIDENCE TO USE · 1 OF 6

Practice question: To what extent did the reforms of Habib Bourguiba (1956–1987) improve the position of women in Tunisia?

5 more points of evidence, 3 primary sources and the model plan for this question are in the IB notes of chapter 7 in the atlas.

8. Ben Ali: Stability and Silence

CHAPTER 8 · 1987–2010 · CONCEPTS: CAUSATION, CONTINUITY

Paper 1 · Protest and Change: Tunisia 2010–2015Paper 2 · Authoritarian Rule: How was it maintained?Paper 2 · Popular Movements: Why did popular movements emerge?

EVIDENCE TO USE · 1 OF 6

Practice question: Examine the methods used by Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali to maintain power in Tunisia, 1987–2010.

5 more points of evidence, 3 primary sources and the model plan for this question are in the IB notes of chapter 8 in the atlas.

9. Twenty-Eight Days

CHAPTER 9 · DECEMBER 2010 – JANUARY 2011 · CONCEPTS: CAUSATION, SIGNIFICANCE

Paper 1 · Protest and ChangePaper 1 · Protest and Change: Tunisia 2010–2015Paper 2 · Popular Movements: Why did popular movements emerge?Paper 2 · Authoritarian Rule: How was it challenged?

EVIDENCE TO USE · 1 OF 6

Practice question: To what extent was the role of the trade unions the most important reason for the fall of Ben Ali in January 2011?

5 more points of evidence, 3 primary sources and the model plan for this question are in the IB notes of chapter 9 in the atlas.

10. Building a Democracy

CHAPTER 10 · 2011–2014 · CONCEPTS: CHANGE, CONSEQUENCE

Paper 1 · Protest and Change: Tunisia 2010–2015Paper 2 · Popular Movements: How did they create change?Paper 2 · Popular Movements: What was their impact?

EVIDENCE TO USE · 1 OF 6

Practice question: Evaluate the reasons why Tunisia’s democratic transition survived the political crisis of 2013.

5 more points of evidence, 3 primary sources and the model plan for this question are in the IB notes of chapter 10 in the atlas.

11. Terrorism and Fragility

CHAPTER 11 · 2012–2015 · CONCEPTS: CONSEQUENCE, CONTINUITY

Paper 1 · Protest and Change: Tunisia 2010–2015Paper 2 · Popular Movements: How were they challenged?

EVIDENCE TO USE · 1 OF 6

Practice question: Discuss the impact of terrorism on Tunisia’s democratic transition, 2012–2015.

5 more points of evidence, 4 primary sources and the model plan for this question are in the IB notes of chapter 11 in the atlas.

12. Two Movements Compared

EPILOGUE · 1945–2015 · CONCEPTS: PERSPECTIVES, SIGNIFICANCE

Paper 1 · Protest and ChangePaper 1 · Protest and Change: Second-wave feminismPaper 1 · Protest and Change: Tunisia 2010–2015Paper 2 · Popular Movements: What was their impact?

EVIDENCE TO USE · 1 OF 6

Practice question: Compare and contrast the ways in which second-wave feminism and the Tunisian revolution created change.

5 more points of evidence, 4 primary sources and the model plan for this question are in the IB notes of chapter 12 in the atlas.

Practice questions and essay plans

Every chapter ends with a practice question and a model plan: a thesis, three points with evidence and a link back to the question, a counter-argument and a judgement. The plan for chapter 1 is shown in full; for the others, here is the outline, and the rest is in the atlas.

PAPER 2 · PROTEST AND CHANGE · CHAPTER 1

To what extent was the emergence of second-wave feminism in the United States caused by changes in women’s economic position after 1945?

THESIS

Economic change was the deepest cause of second-wave feminism, because the rising number of married women in paid work, on unequal pay, created a daily grievance. It became a movement only when writers and officials named and measured that grievance, so economic change made the movement possible while ideas and institutions made it happen.

THE THREE POINTS
  1. Women’s growing but unequal place in the labour market created the grievance.

    EVIDENCEBy 1960 about a third of married women worked for wages, yet full-time women earned 60.7 per cent of men’s pay and jobs were advertised by sex.

    LINKThe gap between rising participation and unequal reward explains why equal pay and Title VII became the first demands, and why working women, not only suburban housewives, filed most early complaints.

  2. Legal second-class citizenship gave the grievance a political target.

    EVIDENCEHoyt v. Florida (1961) upheld volunteer-only jury service, and three states still barred women from juries, while some states limited married women’s control of property.

    LINKThese laws showed that the vote had not brought equal citizenship, so the problem was political as well as economic, and it gave reformers concrete laws to challenge in court and in Congress.

  3. Ideas and institutions converted discontent into organisation.

    EVIDENCEFriedan’s book sold over a million copies, and Kennedy’s Commission of 1961–63 inspired state commissions whose members founded NOW in 1966.

    LINKWithout these, economic change would have produced private frustration instead of a movement, because a grievance needs a shared language and an organisation before it can become protest.

COUNTER-ARGUMENT

Some historians, following Meyerowitz, argue that the post-war culture was less uniformly domestic than Friedan claimed, and others point to the civil-rights movement as the model and training ground that made women’s protest thinkable. On this view political example mattered more than economics.

JUDGEMENT

Economic change was a necessary cause, since it created both the grievance and the educated women who would articulate it, but it was not sufficient. The movement emerged when the Commission, Friedan and the civil-rights example gave women a language, evidence and a method, so the best answer weighs structure and agency together.

Read the chapter behind this plan: The Problem That Has No Name.

PAPER 2 · PROTEST AND CHANGE · CHAPTER 3

Compare and contrast the ways in which campaigners achieved abortion law reform in the United States and France, 1969–1975.

THESIS

In both countries campaigners used public confession to break the silence that made restrictive laws enforceable, but the routes to reform differed: American change came through state legislatures and then the Supreme Court, while French change came through civil disobedience that pushed a reluctant government to legislate.

THE THREE POINTS
  1. Both movements made a hidden crime public.

  2. In the United States the federal structure produced a patchwork and then a court ruling.

  3. In France civil disobedience forced the government to legislate.

The evidence for each point, the counter-argument and the judgement are in the IB notes of chapter 3 in the atlas. Read the chapter first: The Personal Is Political.

PAPER 2 · PROTEST AND CHANGE · CHAPTER 10

Evaluate the reasons why Tunisia’s democratic transition survived the political crisis of 2013.

THESIS

Tunisia’s transition survived 2013 because civil society organisations with national legitimacy, above all the UGTT, could mediate between parties, because Ennahda chose compromise over confrontation, and because the army stayed out of politics. Egypt’s coup of July 2013 made both sides aware of the cost of failure.

THE THREE POINTS
  1. Civil society provided a mediator.

  2. Ennahda chose to compromise.

  3. The army stayed apolitical and Egypt served as a warning.

The evidence for each point, the counter-argument and the judgement are in the IB notes of chapter 10 in the atlas. Read the chapter first: Building a Democracy.

PAPER 2 · PROTEST AND CHANGE · CHAPTER 4

Examine the reasons why Black, Chicana and poor women organised separately from the mainstream women’s movement in the United States in the 1970s.

THESIS

Women of colour and poor women organised separately because the mainstream’s priorities reflected the lives of white, middle-class women, because their own communities’ movements pressed them to put race first, and because their most urgent issues, welfare and coerced sterilisation, required a different analysis of oppression.

THE THREE POINTS
  1. The mainstream agenda missed their central problems.

  2. Experiences of exclusion within the movement drove autonomy.

  3. Their analysis of oppression differed in kind.

The evidence for each point, the counter-argument and the judgement are in the IB notes of chapter 4 in the atlas. Read the chapter first: Who Was Left Out?.

Primary sources

Each chapter’s IB notes carry primary sources with their origin and the context you need before reading them. The sources of chapter 1 are shown in full here.

TEXT · CHAPTER 1

The Feminine Mystique, opening lines

CREATOR
Betty Friedan
DATE
19 February 1963
ORIGIN
First lines of chapter 1, “The Problem That Has No Name”, published by W. W. Norton, New York

Context. Friedan based the book on a 1957 questionnaire of her Smith College classmates and on interviews with suburban wives.

The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States.

© Betty Friedan estate / W. W. Norton; quoted for criticism and instruction

TEXT · CHAPTER 1

Hoyt v. Florida: why a state may excuse women from juries

CREATOR
Justice John Marshall Harlan II, for a unanimous Supreme Court
DATE
20 November 1961
ORIGIN
Opinion of the US Supreme Court, 368 U.S. 57 (1961), upholding the murder conviction of Gwendolyn Hoyt by an all-male Florida jury

Context. Florida put women on jury lists only if they registered to serve. The ruling stood until Taylor v. Louisiana (1975).

Despite the enlightened emancipation of women from the restrictions and protections of bygone years, and their entry into many parts of community life formerly considered to be reserved to men, woman is still regarded as the center of home and family life. We cannot say that it is constitutionally impermissible for a State, acting in pursuit of the general welfare, to conclude that a woman should be relieved from the civic duty of jury service unless she herself determines that such service is consistent with her own special responsibilities. Florida is not alone in so concluding. Women are now eligible for jury service in all but three States of the Union.

US Supreme Court opinion (US government work) · original ↗

TEXT · CHAPTER 1

Remarks upon signing the Equal Pay Act

CREATOR
President John F. Kennedy
DATE
10 June 1963
ORIGIN
Remarks at the White House, published in the Public Papers of the Presidents

Context. Kennedy spoke four months after The Feminine Mystique appeared and four months before his Commission on the Status of Women reported.

I am delighted today to approve the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which prohibits arbitrary discrimination against women in the payment of wages. This act represents many years of effort by labor, management, and several private organizations unassociated with labor or management, to call attention to the unconscionable practice of paying female employees less wages than male employees for the same job. This measure adds to our laws another structure basic to democracy. It will add protection at the working place to the women, the same rights at the working place in a sense that they have enjoyed at the polling place. While much remains to be done to achieve full equality of economic opportunity—for the average woman worker earns only 60 percent of the average wage for men—this legislation is a significant step forward.

US government work; text from the American Presidency Project · original ↗

PICTURE · CHAPTER 1

Women and jury service in the United States, 1961

CREATOR
Maps of History
DATE
Situation in 1961
ORIGIN
Map drawn from the footnotes of Hoyt v. Florida (1961)

Context. Eight further states let women be excused for family responsibilities; they are shown as eligible on the same terms.

Map of the United States in 1961: Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina barred women from juries; eighteen states, including Florida, New York and Georgia, let women serve only if they volunteered or exempted them for their sex; the rest treated women as eligible on the same terms.

Map: Maps of History. Data: Hoyt v. Florida, 368 U.S. 57, footnotes 5–8

Every other source in the atlas (31)

Internal Assessment starting points

Each starting point is an idea for an investigation: a question, the concept it tests, the kinds of sources you could use and where they are held, and one caution. The investigation must be your own work, and your teacher approves the question.

To what extent did the jury-exemption system upheld in Hoyt v. Florida (1961) keep women off juries in one Florida county between 1950 and 1975?

CONCEPTContinuity

SOURCESState statutes, court records and jury lists; local newspapers; the Supreme Court record in Hoyt v. Florida; later rulings such as Taylor v. Louisiana (1975).

WHERE TO FIND THEMFlorida State Archives; Library of Congress, Chronicling America and digitised newspapers; Cornell LII and Justia for opinions.

CAUTIONJury lists may be incomplete or closed; check what the records can and cannot show about who was summoned.

How far did the Ford Dagenham strike of 1968 change the pay and grading of women workers at Ford by 1984?

CONCEPTChange

SOURCESUnion records, Ford wage agreements, parliamentary debates (Hansard), oral histories with the machinists, press reports from 1968 and 1984.

WHERE TO FIND THEMModern Records Centre, University of Warwick; Hansard online; British Library newspapers; the TUC Library Collections at London Metropolitan University.

CAUTIONLater memories and the 2010 film have reshaped how the strike is remembered; compare oral histories with records made at the time.

Why did the Illinois legislature never ratify the Equal Rights Amendment between 1972 and 1982?

CONCEPTCausation

SOURCESIllinois House and Senate journals and roll calls, campaign materials of STOP ERA and of ERA Illinois, newspaper coverage, interviews.

WHERE TO FIND THEMIllinois State Archives; Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute (women’s movement papers); the Phyllis Schlafly papers at the Eagle Forum archive, St. Louis; Chicago Tribune archive.

CAUTIONBoth campaigns produced persuasive material; read it as evidence of strategy, not as neutral description.

How did the National Welfare Rights Organization present welfare as a women’s issue between 1966 and 1975?

CONCEPTPerspectives

SOURCESNWRO newsletters and conference papers, Johnnie Tillmon’s writing, court cases such as King v. Smith (1968), press coverage.

WHERE TO FIND THEMGeorge A. Wiley Papers, Wisconsin Historical Society; Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University; Ms. magazine archive.

CAUTIONOrganisational sources may overstate membership; compare claimed numbers with independent estimates.

What role did the UGTT’s regional unions play in spreading protest in Tunisia between 17 December 2010 and 14 January 2011?

CONCEPTSignificance

SOURCESUGTT statements, press reports, NGO reports by the International Crisis Group and Amnesty International, interviews, videos posted at the time.

WHERE TO FIND THEMInternational Crisis Group and Amnesty International online archives; Nawaat and Al Jazeera archives; academic studies by Joel Beinin and Hèla Yousfi.

CAUTIONMany sources are in Arabic or French and some are partisan; online videos need careful dating and verification.

How far did the Personal Status Code of 1956 change marriage and divorce in Tunisia between 1956 and 1985?

CONCEPTChange

SOURCESThe text of the Code and its amendments, national statistics on marriage and divorce, court records where available, women’s memoirs.

WHERE TO FIND THEMJournal officiel de la République tunisienne; Institut National de la Statistique; Archives nationales de Tunisie; Mounira Charrad’s published research.

CAUTIONOfficial statistics may hide customary practice; consider what changed in law and what changed in daily life.

How did the British press report the women’s liberation conference at Ruskin College, Oxford, in 1970?

CONCEPTPerspectives

SOURCESNational and local newspaper reports, conference papers, participants’ recollections, photographs.

WHERE TO FIND THEMThe Women’s Library, London School of Economics; British Library newspapers; History Workshop archives at the Bishopsgate Institute.

CAUTIONPress reports reflect editors’ assumptions about the movement; compare them with participants’ accounts.

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