Women‚ in their relentless pursuit of gender equality‚ have evolved from the early modern period to the postmodern world. Whereas early modern women simply focused on getting a good education‚ modern women focused on acquiring equal legal rights as men and postmodern women focused on expanding upon a woman’s role in society from that of a traditional housewife to a woman with equal opportunity as a man. In the early modern period‚ not only were women denied the most basic of natural rights in many
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"Quaker Women in the American Colonies" During the colonial period‚ women were considered inferior to men and “nothing more than servants for their husbands.” During the eighteenth century‚ unmarried Quaker women were the first to vote‚ stand up in court‚ and evangelize; although Quaker women enjoyed rights that women today take for granted‚ they were most known for their religious radicalism. According to Rufus Jones‚ a professor at Harvard‚ the Quakers “felt‚ as their own testimony plainly
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In Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War‚ Drew Gilpin Faust writes about women and their experiences during the Civil War. When Confederate men marched off to battle‚ white women across the South confronted new responsibilities. These responsibilities included tasks such as directing farms‚ supervising their slaves who were becoming more and more impatient and excited about gaining their freedom‚ and simply working to earn money which they desperately needed
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Three very significant women that are part of a developing tradition by American women poets are Anne Bradstreet‚ Phillis Wheatley‚ and Emily Dickinson. Although these women are from different backgrounds and time periods their works compare in many ways. However‚ there are still some differences between these three influential writers. Bradstreet reflects puritan thinking through her poems; when she says‚ “Adieu‚ Adieu‚ all’s vanity” she is reflecting the puritan thinking about the vanity of this
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Women in the 19th Century In the 19th century and in the story The Yellow Wallpaper women were faced with many un equal rights compared to men. Some women such as Charlotte P Gilman was someone who didn’t let inequal rights stop her from pursuing happiness and her dreams. As a young girl Gilman was faced with the troubles of American culture and society. With World War 1 in effect it was hard for any women to pursue her dreams. When Gilman turned 18 she joined the Rhode Island School Of Design to
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necessity. For example‚ women are mistreated and undervalued in athletics. Sharon Lennon‚ author of What is Mine‚ was taught this lesson young‚ as an excellent female softball player on a male team. After asking to play catcher in a game‚ the coach responded‚ "All right but you’ll have to wear a cup" (Lennon‚ 215). This continues through less attention and money allotted to female teams‚ as well as fewer and lower-valued scholarships for female athletes. In academics‚ women also suffer from sexism
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names‚ the land of opportunity‚ the land of choice‚ and the land of freedom. In America‚ women can hold professional jobs‚ obtain advanced degrees‚ and make choices about their health. Every day‚ the media shows how women are still oppressed throughout the world. It is naive to think that American women do not struggle‚ but at least they can go outside their homes without needing a male chaperone. Being an American woman means not only making decisions without having to worry about life threatening consequences
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The outbreak of World War I resulted in more than mere casualties. As men left their jobs to go into the service‚ women were needed to "step up to the plate." For the first time‚ women were called upon to fill factory assembly line positions. With the war’ conclusion in 1918‚ the United States emerged strong and prosperous. Women had aided in this accomplishment‚ and they began to embody the new era’s lighthearted attitude. The end of World War I eased American’s into a spirit of hope and newness
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Because many American women of the nineteenth century had very different ideals‚ feminism became a global movement‚ and "early feminists found allies abroad." Many feminists believed that married or not‚ all women deserved the same rights as men. An extreme feminist of her time‚ Margaret Fuller‚ wanted to spread her ideas about women’s rights‚ and she became editor of the New York Tribune in 1844. She later published Woman in the Nineteenth Century in which she. Every path to self-fulfillment‚ she
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demonstrate that African American women are considered subservient to white females and depicted as exotic. I will draw on the theories of Janell Hobson‚ Audrey Kerr‚ Scott Plous‚ and Dominique Neptune and look at how issues of class‚ power and beauty are constructed. I will conclude that mainstream media reflect a racialized sense of beauty that portray blackness as abnormal and whiteness as an attribute of beauty and that this increases the dissatisfaction of black women with their ethnicity.
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