Prompt: “Analyze the arguments women used in the 1848 – 1920 campaign to achieve the right to vote AND how were they able to combat the opposition against women’s suffrage.”…
Emily’s List is a political interest group dedicated to promoting the equality of women in the political scene by electing pro-choice Democratic women to office. The process begins with the recruitment of strong pro-choice Democratic women candidates to run in viable political opportunities. Local communities are then informed about these women and asked to donate to the campaigns of candidates for the House, Senate, and governor. Furthermore, extensive training for the candidates and staff is provided to ensure they can make the most of the limited sources and succeed through the toughest of elections. Finally, and perhaps the most essential step in the process, Emily’s List reaches out to women voters in the days and weeks before Election Day with tactfully persuasive messages that motivate them to cast their ballots for progressive Democrats, following the philosophy “When Women Vote, Women Win!”…
Within the parameters of this essay, I will explore the extent of the patriarchal society’s ability to apply hegemony in advertisements, shaping women’s subjectivities in order to reassert male dominance and female subordination. Radical feminist theory defines patriarchy as “a system of structures, institutions and ideology created by men in order to sustain and recreate male power and female subordination, ” located within a system of knowledge and language which constructs both masculinity and femininity in support of the establish power imbalance (Rowland & Klein, 1996, p.15-16). Through the application of the radical feminist theory, I argue that the hyper sexualized, unattainable and sexist beauty standards imposed on women by the patriarchy…
In the introduction of the reading of Estelle B. Freedman she starts by bringing up an article by Arthur S. Link on the Progressive movement and looked on some other groups that were advocating social justice. She points out that Link failed to mention how feminist involved in the suffrage movement or others more broadly involved in social reform did. The author goes on saying that Link failed to ask the right question as far as feminism was concern during the women’s movement. The more sensible question that the author suggested was what had happened to feminism during the decades after achieving the suffrage in this country. It seems hard to see that women could be ignored when daily news was on women’s rights during the times in the 19th…
We as Americans reminisce on history to see and understand the advancements we have accomplished and the same can be said of not only the advancement of women but also the image of how women are portrayed. Although in today’s day and age, their figures and beauty are scrutinized but also exploited. For instance in both Tennessee Williams motion picture, “A Street Car Named Desire” and Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun you are able to see the evolution of the not only the portal of women but also the advancements they accomplish.…
Steinman received her degree in 1956. This was when her life turned around for the better. She worked for independent research and after this Steinem established a career for herself as a freelance writer. Steinem won many awards such as: Choice USA, Penney-Missouri award and many more. In the late 1960’s Steinman she helped to create the New York magazine, she also wrote column on politics and publication in the magazine. It is clear that after her column in the New York magazine she became more engaged in the women’s movement. In 1971 Steinem joined other feminists in forming the National Women’s Political Caucus, which basically worked on behalf of women’s issues. After this Steinman took the lead in in launching the feminist Ms magazine, which was later, inserted into the New York…
As an icon in the women’s rights movement, Betty Friedan did more than write about confining gender stereotypes but she became a force for change. Susan Oliver’s bibliography captivates Betty Friedan’s leading role against the sexual inequality between men and woman during her lifetime. Born as a daughter of Jewish parents in Peoria, Illinois Betty saw in her own eyes the sacrifices women were making through her mother’s loss of fulfilling a career in journalism. Once she married, Betty’s mother had to give up her job at a newspaper and latter on urged Betty to peruse a career in journalism. Betty was able to graduate from Smith College with a bachelor’s degree and did one year’s worth of work in graduate school at the University of California,…
In the column by Gail Collins, “What Happened to Working Women in America?,” the author establishes her explanation for the decline of women working in the work force. In doing so, Collins provides facts as to why this issue is occurring in society today. Throughout “What Happened to Working Women in America?,” Gail Collins’ satirical, yet earnest tone illustrates the reason why need for women to come into the workforce is important in America.…
Ruth Stein believes that fundamentalism is one’s personal “quest” to “violently transcend experiences” of one’s fear of eternal slumber (death) and how the existence of another human being serves as an “obstacle” that distances an individual further from their personal desires. She feels as though fundamentalism is being encapsulated in one’s own personal “comforting straight jacket.” Which I felt is a view that is rarely seen or heard of (at least it is nothing I have seen or heard of). As I was reading Stein’s article, one (when I say one I mean myself) could compare Stein’s unusual and thought provoking ideas as well as concepts to Sigmund Freud- in the sense that they both took a unique and stylistic approach to a very controversial yet…
While women inhabited a domestic sphere, the men’s sphere was outside the home in the world of industry and politics. Women were looked down upon and seen as obedient to their husbands. However, during the progressive era, many women were well educated and ignored the traditional social norms and worked outside the home. Although they lead many significant progressive era reforms, they were still denied the right to vote.…
The Progressive Era lasted from the 1890s to the 1920s focusing on many different issues. During the Progressive Era women played a key part in trying to make changes in their political rights and making advancements in progressivism. “Equal Rights” was not what it seemed to be, women of course had their freedom but they necessarily didn't have the freedom to vote like that of men.…
Two possible theories explaining child maltreatment are the feminist theory and the choice theory of crime. First, a brief review provides each theory an avenue to explaining how it relates to the crime. Next, a discussion of both theories includes forming potential criminal justice responses. Finally, actual criminal justice system responses are examined providing insight into how the implantations relate to the theories given.…
In the reading, “If Men Could Menstruate,” the author, Gloria Steinem, argues that no matter what the characteristic may be, men would still find a way to justify how and why this particular characteristic—in this case, menstruation—would still be a characteristic that only the powerful can hold. Although at first I was a bit confused as to what exactly Steinem was arguing and why, after having read the article multiple times, I was finally able to make sense of where she was coming from through her unique use of sarcasm and role-reversal scenario. Whereas some may automatically assume that if the roles were reversed, men, too, would know the pain and suffering that is accompanied by menstruation, thus, allowing them to sympathize more with…
Gloria Steinem had a rather unusual upbringing, she spent part of the year in Michigan and the winters in Florida or California, with all of this traveling, and Steinem did not attend school regularly until she was 11 years old. Once her parents divorced she ended up caring for her mother for six years in a rundown home in Ohio before she graduated high school and would attend college. She attended Smith College where she would study government, the first sign of Steinem’s differences from the average woman during this time considering this was a very non-traditional choice of major for women. Most of her peers were following the social normality’s of the time: marriage and motherhood. Following college Steinem found herself pregnant with her Fiancés child but quickly decided that was not the path for her; she had an abortion and broke off her engagement.…
In the 19th century it was expected for women and children to work as man. The nation’s crises constrained industrial wages and produced high levels of unemployment. Women and child factory worker chose to work 10 hours a day. The outcome was the Knights of Labor where practically anybody could work.…