Women's health

feminist critique of multiculturalism, which provides the basis for the argumentation of this thesis. Her provocative article, “Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?”, is often seen as the starting point of academic debate about the compatibility of women's rights and minority group rights. Nevertheless, this article is reviewed and analysed in Part I along with the rest of Okin’s work concerning the relationship of feminism and multiculturalism. Second, this thesis deals with Kymlicka's liberal…

In the United Kingdom, an important democratic change was the right to vote for women. It might be obvious in the 21st century that women and men are politically equal but during the 20th century, a militant suffragist stepped in front of horses running a race and received fatal injuries only to acquire the right to vote. To overcome an established culture and gender stereotypes, women protested peacefully, had strong organizations and showed their productivity. In the United Kingdom, just…

Temperance (Sherr). In 1852, Anthony and Stanton started the Women's New York State Temperance Society. Not long after that did they start fighting for women's rights. They then formed a Women's Rights Committee. They mainly focused on women's rights to own property and to vote. They would travel all over to campaign for women's rights. (Bio.com) When the Civil War ended, Anthony decided to focus less on alcohol and more on women's rights. She established the American Equal Rights…

War I started which dragged many countries including the U.S. into fighting. Even though all of these are great examples of dissent during this era, the one that is equally important and needs to be spotlighted more is the U.S. Women’s Suffrage Movement. The U.S. Women’s Suffrage Movement is one of the most influential and relevant dissent movements in American history. A fight that lasted for 72 years and ended in the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which provided…

One in particular have been the Seneca Falls convention which was arguably the beginning of the journey towards women’s equal rights. On July 19th, 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York almost 200 women attended a conference organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to “discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of women.” (History) At this…

Aldous Huxley foresaw a number of incredible triumphs in his novel, Brave New World, but it seems that in no point in the near, or even distant future, was liberation for women an attainable goal for him. In fact, despite the dystopic nature of his novel, Huxley instead created a world that is hauntingly similar to our own. ‘Brave New World’ is a second-rate replica of the misogynistic 1930s society that belittled women and gave men an unjust sense of superiority and entitlement. It’s a story…

people have changed america forever. Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg is one of those people. Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg graduated from columbia law school, to become a staunch courtroom advocate for the fair treatment of women and working with the ACLU's women's rights project. She was appointed by President Carter to the U.S. court of appeals in 1980, and was appointed to the supreme court by president Clinton in 1993. Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg was born on March 15,1933, in Brooklyn, New York. She was…

Wollstonecraft, one of the few female enlightenment thinkers, focused on challenging traditional gender norms in her society. Wollstonecraft was a highly influential person in the Enlightenment through her writings on needing women’s education, as well as her views on women’s rights, such the outdated views of her time, and that men and women needed to be equal. Mary Wollstonecraft believed that men and women should have equal education, as well as that they should learn the same material.…

what’s, and when’s of the women’s suffrage movement. Despite the fact that we know the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 as the pinnacle of the women’s suffrage movement, Lisa goes to great lengths to remind us not of the myth, but of the truth about the women’s suffrage movement. Anyone who reads “The Myth of Seneca Falls” will immediately know that Lisa’s entire purpose for writing this book is to inform the reader of the truth of the Seneca Falls convention and the women’s suffrage movement.…

Transcendentalism proved to be one of the most known movements in the mid-nineteenth century. Authors such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller and more joined the movement to live their lives in solitude and to express their individualism. Transcendentalism proved individualism to be key in shaping individuals’ personalities and lives. Individualism has its good days and its bad days like all human beings. Emerson once stated, “Conformity is the death of…