Movements for Equal Rights for Women

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Movements for Equal Rights for Women
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Gender and Sex

• Gender
• Definition
• Socially and culturally determined difference
• Does NOT mean women
• Sex
• Definition
• Biologically determined difference

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Gender and History

• Gender Roles
• Traditional peasant society
• Patriarchal
• Local
• Violent
• Church
• Very specific roles
• Daughter-in-law

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Gender and Industrialization

• Urbanization
• Social mobility
• Geographical mobility
• Factory work
• Unity
• Segregation
• Education
• French and American Revolutions

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Gender and Industrialization

• WORK
• Separate spheres private vs. public
• Sexuality
• The fairer sex

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Womens movement for Equal Rights

• Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
• Education for women
• Died of "childbed fever in 1797

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Woman suffrage movement

• Chartist Movement
• Britain 1840s
• Vote for unmarried women and widows
• Many women active, but in their sphere
• "No women's work except in the hearth and the
  schoolroom."

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Woman suffrage movement

• Saint-Simonians
• France 1840s
• "different but equal
• Feminists
• Merging of orient and occident female and male

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Seneca Falls Convention (1848)

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Lucretia Mott
• 300 people
• 40 men
• James Mott
• Declaration of Sentiments "all men and women had
  been created equal
• 18 "injuries and usurpations
• Woman suffrage

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Woman suffrage movement

• Harriet Taylor (1807-1858)
• John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
• The Enfranchisement of Women (1849)
• The Subjection of Women (1869)
• Sweden (1862)
• Second Reform Bill (1867)

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Suffragists

• peaceful, forceful protests

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Woman suffrage movement

• Suffragettes
• Violence
• Arrests
• hunger strikes
• Emmeline Pankhurst
• Womens Social and Political Union
• Just War

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Emily Wilding Davison, 1872-1913
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Emily Wilding Davison
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When women got the vote