Analysis Of Sarah M. Evans Article, Sons Daughters And...

The 1960s is an era notorious for its rights movements; a decade of chaos and eventually, one of change. One of the rights movements that occurred in the 60s was Second-Wave Feminism and despite it beginning towards the end of the decade and continuing well into the seventies, it still had a prominent impact on the counter-culture of the 60s. In Sarah M. Evans article â€Å"Sons, Daughters and Patriarchy: Gender and the 1968 Generation,† Evans focuses primarily on the year 1968 and analyses the international gender norm crisis that occurred in both sexes, male and female. In doing so, Evans successfully convinces her audience that 1968 was the year that gender dynamics was globally revolutionized. Evans arranges her article chronologically so that her audience has the best possible understanding of the year 1968. She begins with the events leading up to ‘68, which was the young men’s fight against traditional masculinity and how their emphasis on personal liberation eventually fueled women to search for their own sexual freedoms in ’68 and the years after. She shows her audience the progression of young women’s feelings and how over the course of the year, they got more and more angered by the gender hierarchy made and practiced by young men. Evans starts off by claiming that the youth of 1968 were all fighting gender insurgency; no matter how different the goals of each sex, their outcomes all fell under one category: anti-patriarchy. According to Evans, young males challenged