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Jul 10, 2018 · St John translated Hrotsvit’s plays in the spirit of a commitment to historical women’s literary achievement. In 2018 we should commemorate this remarkable relationship of a suffragette and a nun, sisters in drama for whom this medium offered opportunity to celebrate women’s lives and promote change. Further Reading.
Woman suffrage challenged the legal principle of coverture, which subsumed a married woman’s political and economic identity into her husband’s; it also challenged dominant gender roles that confined women to the domestic sphere.
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This helped boost the women’s suffrage movement in the United States. The women’s suffrage movement in Britain also made worldwide headlines, as Emmeline Pankhurst and others agitated for the vote despite facing arrest and imprisonment.
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The campaign for women’s suffrage began in earnest in the decades before the Civil War. During the 1820s and '30s, most states had extended the franchise to all white men, regardless of how much money or property they had. At the same time, all sorts of reform groups were proliferating across the United States—temperance leagues, religious movement...
In 1848, a group of abolitionist activists—mostly women, but some men—gathered in Seneca Falls, New York to discuss the problem of women’s rights. They were invited there by the reformers Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. Most of the delegates to the Seneca Falls Conventionagreed: American women were autonomous individuals who deserved thei...
During the 1850s, the women’s rights movement gathered steam, but lost momentum when the Civil War began. Almost immediately after the war ended, the 14th Amendment and the 15th Amendment to the Constitutionraised familiar questions of suffrage and citizenship. The 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868, extends the Constitution’s protection to all citiz...
This animosity eventually faded, and in 1890 the two groups merged to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the organization’s first president. By then, the suffragists’ approach had changed. Instead of arguing that women deserved the same rights and responsibilities as men because women and men were “cre...
Starting in 1910, some states in the West began to extend the vote to women for the first time in almost 20 years. Idaho and Utah had given women the right to vote at the end of the 19th century. Still, southern and eastern states resisted. In 1916, NAWSA president Carrie Chapman Cattunveiled what she called a “Winning Plan” to get the vote at last...
Jul 18, 2023 · It points to the influence of (masculine) modern political theory in the liberal branch of the women’s rights and suffrage movement. It then moves to a discussion of progressive women’s activism and theory, particularly women’s opposition to the distinctions between the “public,” “social,” and “private” spheres of life that ...
Dec 1, 2019 · Susan D. Becker, The Origins of the Equal Rights Amendment: American Feminism between the Wars (Westport, 1981); Nancy F. Cott, The Grounding of Modern Feminism (New Haven, 1987); Dorothy Sue Cobble, The Other Women's Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America (Princeton, 2004); Cynthia Harrison, On Account of Sex: The Politics of Women's Issues, 1945–1968 (Berkeley ...
By Katherine M. Marino. The history of the US woman suffrage movement is usually told as a national one. It begins with the 1848 Seneca Falls convention; follows numerous state campaigns, court battles, and petitions to Congress; and culminates in the marches and protests that led to the Nineteenth Amendment.
