Women’s Rights
POLITICAL
1. Women followed England’s example
a. Running in front of horses
2. 1848 – Seneca Falls
a. Declaration of Sentiments
3. Organizations:
a. 1869 – NWSA
a. fighting in Congress
b. 1869 – AWSA
a. fighting in states
c. 1966 – NOW
a. equality in workplace
3. Federal Acts
a. 1893 – CO lets women vote
b. 1920 – 19th Amendment
c. 1960 – FDA approves birth control pills
d. 1963 – Equal Pay Act
e. 1973 – Roe vs. Wade
a. safe and legal abortion
f. 1978 – Pregnancy Discrimination Act
g. 1994 – Violence Against Women Act
SOCIAL
1. Women’s Role
a. no vote, husband has control, no property unless widowed
b. women are few in the west / have more power
2. 1920’s
a. flappers, new ideas of women
a. seen as deteriorating society
b. clothing shorter – WWI rationing
a. showing knees, calve
b. birth control
a. women have power to control life
The Essay on Asian American Literature Woman Should Act
It is true that all people are created different, and thus no two cultures will ever be the same. Throughout Asian American literature there seems to be a struggle between the Asian culture and American culture. More specifically, there is a struggle between Asian women and their Asian American daughters, and what it means to be feminine, and how a woman should act. The main struggle is between ...
c. Car – changed dating
d. Alcohol
a. women drinking in bars, more equal
3. 1930’s – Great Depression
a. huge destruction of family unit
a. women becoming breadwinners
b. FDR – 1st woman in cabinet
a. Eleanor Roosevelt – fought for everyone
4. 1940’s – WWI
a. Rosie the Riveter
b. Sexual Evolution
i. Sinatra, bobbysoxers
ii. Relationships pushed with men going to war
5. 1950’s – Return to Normalcy
a. backwards movement / women back to the home
i. gov’t told women to return home
1. housing boom – track homes
b. advertising
i. TV consumerism – products for women in the home
ii. Ideal mother – Leave it to Beaver etc.
6. 1960’s & 70’s
a. birth control approved
a. women have the right to choose home/career
b. Feminism movement
a. learns from civil rights movement
1. civil disobedience – bra burning, pageant protesting
c. 1963 – Feminine Mystique – Betty Freidan
