Women's suffrage

world and the views on the word “feminism” itself. The first wave of feminism took place in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It began in July of 1848 with the Seneca Falls Convention. The convention, which was fighting for women’s suffrage was run by…

Looking back on sources that debate the issue of women’s suffrage, it is clear how far we have come since those times, but it is still apparent how far we have to go. In the Early 20th century, people still had to be reminded that women were actual human beings who deserved proper treatment just as men did. Women’s rights activists worked hard against the barriers that had (DELETE HAD) prevented them from entering prominent positions in government and society and continue to do so today.…

women who refused to go back to their traditional roles. Now that they had experienced something new, they did not want to go back to staying at home. They did not want to abide to what society considered to be feminine. More working women joined the suffrage movements. They hoped that with the right to vote their working conditions would improve. The nineteenth Amendment may have given woman the right to vote in the 1920s, but they were still not seen equally to men. There were many topics that…

Alice Paul, a suffragist leader and the founder of the U.S National Women’s Party, wrote the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in 1923. The social, economic, and political discrimination that women had been facing was unjust and Alice Paul wanted to introduce equal rights under the law for all persons. In 1943 she rewrote the…

In the early nineteenth century, the words “politics” and “women” were in their own separate categories. For white middle-class Americans, Politics was entitled to males in the public sphere, while women’s place was in the private sphere, taking care of their children at home. It wasn’t until the rise of an ideology called “Republican motherhood” where, for the first time, women were allowed to be politically aware in order to educate their children about politics. However, women were still…

institution, gender is a process of creating distinguishable social statuses for the assignment of rights and responsibilities. As a part of a stratification system that ranks these statuses unequally,” (Lorber 95). Here, Lorber speaks about men’s and women’s societal gender roles as “distinguishable social statuses” that have different expectations and privileges. In addition, the privileges held by men have been unfairly cast onto them rather than women representationally through the…

riding bicycles, driving cars, smoking cigarettes, drinking in public, and advocating sexual liberation was highly controversial at the time. Society did not see Flappers as proper women, however, these women started a new trend that paralleled the Women’s Rights Movement. Premarital activities such as “petting” became popular during this time. Unmarried women still found intercourse to be defined as “Cheap, common, and promiscuous,” unless marriage with the partner remains in…

history. Douglass spoke about his experiences, and his thoughts and beliefs on slavery in his speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” In a speech titled, “Declaration of Sentiments” Stanton wrote about how wrong society was on the topic of women’s rights in a very enticing manner, using the Declaration of Independence as a way of making her speech more credible. Frederick Douglass and Elizabeth Cady Stanton had the same basic purpose for giving their respective speeches, and they…

The issue of women’s rights and child labor has been a challenging one since the early civilizations. Its effects have changed history, impacted women every day, and will undeniably last a long time in the future. Throughout history, specifically in recent centuries, courageous women have taken a powerful stand against the oppressive social prejudices they faced every day. Florence Kelley, a United States social worker, passionately fought for child labor and enfranchisement of women in the…

ago, women’s role in society was mainly just that, woman took care of the home, and family. Men’s role was to be the bread winner, then would come home to a serving wife. Crystal Eastman, discusses in her essay, “Now We Can Begin,” that women are more than just being a caregiver, and Eastman called for the social gap between woman and men to end, and both sexes to be equal. Eastman first starts out discussing about how wonderful it was that the Tennessee Legislature passed the Federal suffrage…