Chapter 19, "Surprises", notes

Chapter 19 was about the revolts and rebellions of women, prisoners, and Native Americans. Women were suppressed by men; prisoners were suppressed by the law; Indians by the white people.

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  Men thought of women as impractical, emotional,unstable, and incapable of doing hard thinking.
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  women were torn out of their prison of femininty when they had t do work for the war and socia change.
• Women's houseworkwas not consideredreal work becaue in a capitalistic society, work consisted of getting a money value.
• times were changing in 1968 because of the women revolts.
• WITCH was a organization for radical women, They said that WITCH lived in every single woman that wanted freeom
• Women became strong and learned self-defense to protect themselves from rape.
• The law and government did not do anything for women, the only way they got rights was because they organized, took action and protested.
• The woman's fight began with the exploitation of their bodies.
• They got information and learned about their bodies. Knowledge is power.
• The penitentiary system was meant to bring reform and salvation to prisoners.
• there was a lot of inequality in prisons.
• The poor, black, hippie, homosexual, and radicals were more likely to go to jail than the rich and the white.
• Attica prisoners joined together (black and white) to take over the guards. It started a lot of oranized efforts to destroyprisons.
• Prison life was an accurate reflection of the American society, with its racism and social inequality, and endless "reforms" that never happened.
• Prisoners became informed by the anti-war movemen, youth upsurge, the black revolt.
• Native Americans were attacked and subdued by the white invaders
• They were forced to become apart of civilization but they never forgot their roots and culture
• the government violated every single treaty between them and the Indians.
• Indian revolts and resistane consisted of fishing where the government said they couldn't.
• Indians stayed on the island of Alcatrez "The Rock" as a principle. The government cut off the island from running water, electricity, and no game or animals.
• They wanted to prove that they could rebuild the land and make it a Native American Studies for Ecology
• They wanted their land back that was given to them by the Great Spirit
• The Great Spirit gave the Native Americans strength to succeed
• Change was happening in the schools, teachers began throwing away old textbooks that did not include or ignored Indians.
• There was "a general revolt against oppressive, artifcial, previously unquestioned ways of living"
• There was no shame as far as different sexualities. Everyone was open and willing in the 60s-70s.
• Womens dress was free from femininity restrictions
• People left the church unofficially
• A belief in self-expression grew because there was less belief in government, business, and religion.