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During the 20th century, including during her anti-ERA campaign, Schlafly was able to spread and implement her policies through her personal activities such as radio broadcasts, interviews on public television, circulation of her monthly newsletter, and organization and mobilization of churches and local communities.
These activities "unleashed an intense and seemingly irrepressible culture war" [3] during the volatile 70s and early 80s. In these crucial years, the New Right implemented its policies as "opposition to Schlafly also relied on her Eagle Forum, the "alternative to women's lib ", [5] to implement her anti-ERA social policies. While Schlafly was working against the ERA, both STOP ERA and the Eagle Forum were held together by "Schlafly's personal leadership plus their organ of communication, the Phyllis Schlafly Report, which each month presented news and new arguments against ERA, kept a running tally of votes by the states, and advised on campaign strategies and tactics".
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Schlafly's influence didn't end with the ERA; the Eagle Forum continues to be a medium for the development and implementation of Schlafly's social policies, including her policies regarding women's rights. In , the Eagle Forum included "a membership of 50, women who [could] be mobilized for conservative causes and candidates". Her main focus continues to be "issues related to sexuality and the family Schlafly has also nationally published several books detailing her anti-feminist stance and her social policies.
Those that particularly pertain to women's rights and Schlafly's social policies include the following:. For a complete list of Schlafly's writings, see Eagle Forum.
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According to Schlafly's social policy writings, "men and women are different, and Schlafly held the position that men and women are fundamentally different, and resisted what she termed the "feminist [propagandist]" assertion that "we must redesign society to become gender neutral and that men must shed their macho image and remake themselves to become househusbands". She rejoices that she has a capability for creativity that men can never have".
In marriage, Schlafly argued, men and women's roles are different and should remain so, in spite of ERA-related feminist efforts to equalize their roles. In an article on the New Right, Rebecca Klatch explains Schlafly's view of marriage and the difference between men and women's roles: Gender is envisioned as a hierarchal ordering with God and Christ at the top, followed by men, and then women".
Some feminists, like Petchesky, have criticized Schlafly's patriarchal stance, saying the New Right stands for male domination and female bondage, or "the right of the white male property owner to control his wife and his wife's body, his children and their bodies, his slaves and their bodies. It is an ideology that is patriarchal and racist ".
Though a woman should be able to expand her talents and "join the competitive world" if she desires, [19] her primary role, according to Schlafly, should be that of wife and mother, of homemaker rather than career woman. Her stance is summarized by Susan E. Marshall in an article on anti-feminists , who states, "Females are uniquely suited for their domestic duties of home maintenance and child care, and conversely the domination of the public sphere by males is justified by their inherently superior aggressive, analytical, and logical abilities".
Schlafly also believed that motherhood is crucial to the well being of society; she states, "The career of motherhood is not recorded or compensated in cash wages in government statistics, but that doesn't make it any less valuable"; in fact, just the opposite is true: The future of America depends on our next generation being morally, psychologically, intellectually, and physically strong". Feminists have criticized Schlafly for this stance, claiming that her "' pro-life ' and 'pro-family' ideology represent the urge to restore the values of motherhood as they haven't been propagated since the late eighteenth century".
Social policies of Phyllis Schlafly
The flight from home is a flight from self, from responsibility, from the nature of woman, in pursuit of false hopes and fading fantasies". Schlafly acknowledged that motherhood and family life are difficult, but contends that the family is still the place of greatest growth and satisfaction for women.
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