Universal suffrage

Women used many different methods to earn the right to vote in the Women’s Suffrage Movement. They used 3 methods to get the right to vote, these reasons are: The first method was a parade. This parade took place in Washington DC during president Wilson's inauguration. During this time people on the streets were drinking and it turned violent. The crowds attacked the women, they yelled at them and even threw bottles at them. The police did absolutely nothing to help the women. Afterwards, there…

In the article “We Should All Be Feminists,” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks about what is wrong with today's norms that are set around gender and the word feminism.This article confirms most of my thoughts on the stereotype associated with feminism, but fails to give the point of view from a male feminist which is much different. Adichie does a great job of pointing out the problem of discrimination towards women and, even more so, women that identify as feminist, but doesn't go into detail on…

The book O Pioneers! written by Willa Cather, originally published by Hesperus Press in 1913. O Pioneers! has five parts, each part having their own chapter. It tells the struggles and successes of a Swedish-American farming family that moves to Hanover, Nebraska in the turn of the 20th century. In the five parts of the book, many things happen to the Bergson’s, the Swedish-American family that immigrated to Hanover, Nebraska in the 1800’s. One wintry January day, Alexandra Bergson and her five…

What is feminism? According to Merriam-Webster, feminism is “the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes (M. Webster).” The stigmatism behind the word feminism however, is still apparent in today’s society and is something that the F-Word works to eliminate. The F-Word was originally founded two to three years ago and was made to de-stigmatize the word ‘feminism’ along with attempting to create a club that practices intersectional feminism through tangible actions…

Paulina Porizkova, a model and traveler, writes in “America Made Me a Feminist” about the differences in culture and beliefs. Now she believes woman have fallen short of what they can accomplish. Throughout her piece, she uses a series of rhetorical tools but mainly relies on her experience. However, her experience is persuasive in showing a need for feminism. Porizkova takes her women audience through the previous locations she has lived and shows the difference in a woman’s worth. Porizkova…

Feminism & Life-Advice Through “Hidden Figures” Even if you don’t come face-to-face with women as noteworthy as Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson every day, there are a plethora of them across the globe in many different shades and shapes. In Margot Lee Shetterly’s “Hidden Figures”, she says: “…the great diversity of their features and hair and skin color, which ranged from near-ivory to almost-ebony, hues of beige and coffee and cocoa and topaz filling in between. Some of…

Chapter One: An Introduction to the Purpose of the Essay The purpose of this essay is to research and evaluate the question: In what ways does Shepard Fairey's We the People series and Norman Rockwell's Rosie the Riveter illustration reflect feminist movements in the US during their times? Both artists address the topic of feminism, but in different ways that are influenced by their era. To understand the influences of the artists, as both lived in very different times, it is necessary to…

Monika Bartyzel wrote “Girls on Film: The Real Problem with the Disney Princess Brand” as part of her collection of writings, “Girls on Film”, for The Week: All You Need to Know About Everything that Matters. Bartyzel wrote this article in 2013 shortly after the Disney coronation of Merida from the film Brave. Bartyzel writes to an audience of women, likely with a feminist perspective. This particular article is also geared towards mothers of daughters who would have an interest in Disney’s…

Reading Response: Daystar I find Rita Dove’s poem “Daystar” to be interesting because the author is describing the tranquility and comfort a mother can experience by taking a break from the usual routine that mothers usually face on a daily basis. In line three of the poem, it states, “a doll slumped behind the door”. The author here uses the literary technique of imagery to compare and represent how the mother is being compared to the doll. As seen in line 4 it states, “So she lugged a chair…

Maxine Hong Kingston grew up as a Chinese-American, displaying some of the values of her culture in her works. At the time, it was not unusual to grow up Chinese-American, but they would be the first generation raised with two very different cultures. In China, women often lacked many rights. They were forced into arranged marriages and ended up being housewives for future children. A sense of community was strong in China, and respect for your family was a virtue. In America, women had the…