TERMS AND CONCEPTS: 1. Sex and Gender What do they mean‚ what are the differences between the two? Gender is a social construction. Sex refers to biological differences that are unchanging; gender involves the meaning that a particular society and culture attach to sexual difference. Because the meaning varies over time and among cultures‚ gender differences are both socially constructed and subject to change. Male/Female (sex) vs. Masculine/Feminine (gender). 2. Race and Class Issues
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issues of the time was women’s suffrage (The right to vote) and a woman named Susan B. Anthony rose to fight for women’s rights and one of her most famous quotes in one of her many influential speeches stated‚ “In the US Constitution it states‚ We the people‚ not we the white American males”. (Doc. 6 Susan B. Anthony Quote) This raised a lot of much needed attention in the matter and eventually Congress approved and Susan B Anthony’s along with many other women’s’ suffrage fighters long battle paid
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servent. As we all may know in the United States men had the right to vote long before women did. Women fought for the chance to vote for years. Some‚ like Susan B. Anthony‚ were put in jail or shunned for fighting for this right. It took tell World War I for women to recieve this right‚ but with a couple restrictions. Susan B. Anthony was born February 15‚ 1820 in Adams‚ Massachusetts. She was brought up in a Quaker family with long activist traditions. Early in her life she developed a
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* It is the duty of women to win their rights | The Suffrage Movement Leading up to the Ratification of the 19th Amendment | * The Declaration of Sentiments (See above) * Woman’s rights convention in Syracuse in 1856 * Lead by Susan B Anthony * Minor V. Happersett * Rejected claims of suffrage from 14th amendment * Caused suffragettes to turn from courts to states and congress * Admission of Wyoming (1890) * Allowed women to vote * First state to allow this * By 1900
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were “owned” by their fathers and husbands. As time passed and the country developed‚ women gradually gained rights otherwise not permitted to them before. But the battle to get this far was not easy. Women such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony had to toil to and fight in what they believed in and in the end their effort did not go in vain. From the 1840s-1920s women fought for equality‚ from the 1930s- present women’s rights became reinforced‚ black women fought for equality‚ the pay
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concerns the colonists had written about with the greivences women’s had towards the limited rights afforded to them. Stanton went on to become a founding member of a major women’s rights party‚ the National Woman’s Suffrage Association‚ along with Susan B. Anthony. The group was formed as the result of a split in the American Equal Rights Association. The radical group sought to achieve women’s rights through constitutional amendments‚ not limited to the right to vote‚ but also looking to make divorce
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changed. With the expansion of their roles in society‚ came more literary references to women. Either as authors themselves‚ such as Margaret Fuller‚ or women who became famous for their political struggles for women’s rights‚ including Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ their courageous battles have been recorded. Just as women’s rights have evolved through the history of America‚ they also have developed as a theme in literature. Importance of “Women’s Rights” Theme in American
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New York. Fowler and Wells 1889. DuBois‚ Ellen Carol‚ ed. The Elizabeth Cady Stanton Susan B. Anthony Reader: Correspondence‚ Writings‚ Speeches‚ Rev. ed. Boston: Northeastern University Press 1992. Stanton‚ Elizabeth Cady. Address of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ Delivered at Seneca Falls& Rochester‚ N.Y. July 19th & August 2nd 1848. New York: Robert J. Johnston‚ 1870. Stanton‚ Elizabeth Cady‚ Susan B. Anthony‚ and Matilda Joslyn Gage‚ eds. History of Woman Suffrage. 3 vols. New York: Fowler
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women ’s suffrage (the right to vote). Susan B. Anthony was one of many prominent leaders from the United States at this time. She faced charges for casting a vote prior to it being legal to do so. She later became the president of the National American Women ’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA). The end of the first wave is often linked with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution granting women the right to vote. Susan B Anthony was one of the woman to draft the amendment
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During the late 1800’s and early 1900’s‚ there were a lot of injustices in the United States. The Progressive Movement‚ which began in the late 1800’s attempted to bring about government reforms and correct injustices in America. One example of the problem in the U.S. was over population of the American cities. More and more people began to move cities from rural areas for jobs. As you can see in Document I‚ the cities were overcrowded and the infrastructure could not hold up with the influx of
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