Women's Health Initiative

who had accomplished giving women and children better rights, especially in the work force. Florence Kelley grew up in a political family which led her to become the person that she was. She had once heard about the abolishment of slavery and the women’s right movement which led her to helping women and children gain the rights that they deserve. Motivation Florence Kelley was able to give the women and children the rights that…

women have been discriminated against and left behind in political progress. Nonwhite women’s rights have been limited from working rights, to political rights, these acts of seclusion affect their social status, how they are perceived and the way they live…

Black, White, Asian, and Hispanic women all have one thing in common. They all have dealt with some form of oppression. bell hooks exemplifies a woman who seeks change and improvement in the feminist movement. When bell hooks enrolled in a graduate class on Feminist Theory she realized all her readings were written by white women and one black man. She had every right to be curious of the works from women of different cultures. Did I mention bell hooks was black? Oppression has no color or…

is if we don’t look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged” (Fitzgerald 16). Colored people and immigrants had a bad reputation with the whites and how they had “stolen” people’s jobs and rights. “Another serious issue that hampered women's efforts in behalf of reform was the white racism and indifference that limited black anti-white women activists' ability to work together” (Dumenil). The problem with the racial inequality was that nothing was ever going to get done at the rate…

groups were located in the North, not the South. This was due to the fast pace of change in the North. Some reformers also wanted to improve the conditions in hospitals, prisons, and asylums. This leading to the Reformer Dorothea Dix who was a mental health reformer. Dorothea Dix was constantly trying her best to improve the lives of the unfortunate people. She tried to help the less fortunate by working in many different occupations. Since…

imbalance. Her second criticism of the traditional feminist movement is of the “homogenization of womanhood.” Higginbotham describes this grouping as one that over simplifies the complex interactions of identities, creating one singular narration of women’s oppression.…

within women’s literature. In Mina Loy’s “Feminist Manifesto”, she writes about how woman are not treated the same as men, women are treated as less. “How Cruel Is the Story of Eve”, by Stevie Smith, also discusses the inequalities between man and woman. These two pieces of literature have a lot of thoughts in common, despite the different time periods the authors wrote them in. Mina Loy and Stevie Smith both present thoughts on the inequalities between man and woman, how men and women’s values…

Many reform movements dealing with women’s’ rights, slavery and the penitentiary system were established in the United States in order to expand democratic ideals. The Second Great Awakening was occurring during this time and was the reason for these movements. The Second Great Awakening was led by leaders who encouraged changes in American society through the unity of the American people (Document B). The women’s suffrage movement supported democratic ideals because it was a movement that…

The age of progression is shown through the people's rights. People’s natural human rights have increased and progressed over centuries. In 1789, The Declaration of Rights of Man and of the Citizen was written. This document stated several articles that stated different rights that were granted to man. This allowed men to have natural born freedoms to liberty, property, safety and resistance against oppression. Some years later after this was written, Olympe de Gouges, a famous french playwright…

subjective experience rather than from a perspective of detached observation. One prime issue she is passionate about is the concept of likability, the degrees and spaces in which women are permitted to be likable, and how consumption of likability shapes women’s portrayal of themselves. She contends, “In many ways, likability is a very elaborate lie, a performance, a code of conduct dictating the proper ways to be. Characters who don’t follow this code become unlikable” (Gay 85). Her notion of…