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Women throughout American history

Women throughout American history. Women in the coloniesWomen in the colonies New England Large families Religious theocracy No rights! Long life

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Page 1: Women throughout American history. Women in the coloniesWomen in the colonies New England  Large families  Religious theocracy  No rights!  Long life

Women throughout American history

Page 2: Women throughout American history. Women in the coloniesWomen in the colonies New England  Large families  Religious theocracy  No rights!  Long life

Women in the colonies

New England

Large families

Religious theocracy

No rights!

Long life expectancy

Dame schools

Chesapeake Very few women

First women come in 1619

Widowarchy

Page 3: Women throughout American history. Women in the coloniesWomen in the colonies New England  Large families  Religious theocracy  No rights!  Long life

Colonial Fashion: low necked, decorative stomacher, large skirts, petticoats

Page 4: Women throughout American history. Women in the coloniesWomen in the colonies New England  Large families  Religious theocracy  No rights!  Long life

Women in the Revolution and Early America

Daughters of Liberty

Spinning bees

Boycotts

Republican Motherhood

Abigail Adams “I beg of you, remember the ladies”

Page 5: Women throughout American history. Women in the coloniesWomen in the colonies New England  Large families  Religious theocracy  No rights!  Long life

Women in Antebellum America

Cult of domesticity

Idea of separate spheres: Idea of the “weaker sex”

Early female education: Oberlin College, Mount Holyoke

Lowell Girls- New England

Second Great Awakening and reform: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Mary Lyon, Angelina and Sarah Grimke

Women’s Christian Temperance Union

Seneca Falls Convention: Declaration of Sentiments

Page 6: Women throughout American history. Women in the coloniesWomen in the colonies New England  Large families  Religious theocracy  No rights!  Long life

Antebellum Fashion: hoop skirts, corset, bustle

Page 7: Women throughout American history. Women in the coloniesWomen in the colonies New England  Large families  Religious theocracy  No rights!  Long life

Gilded Age Fashion: bustle, bodices, straighter skirts

Page 8: Women throughout American history. Women in the coloniesWomen in the colonies New England  Large families  Religious theocracy  No rights!  Long life

Lowell Girls

Oh! isn't it a pity, such a pretty girl as I-- Should be sent to the factory to pine away and die? Oh! I cannot be a slave, I will not be a slave, For I'm so fond of liberty That I cannot be a slave."

Page 9: Women throughout American history. Women in the coloniesWomen in the colonies New England  Large families  Religious theocracy  No rights!  Long life

Women in the Progressive Era Muckraking: Ida Tarbell

and Standard Oil

Social Gospel

Progressive Reformers: Jane Addams, Florence Kelley, Carrie Nation, Frances Willard, Ida B. Wells

Suffrage is a HUGE issue!!: NWSA: National Women’s Suffrage Association (Carrie Chapman Catt), American Women’s Suffrage Association (Lucy Stone), National Woman’s Party (Alice Paul)

Margaret Sanger and Birth Control

19th Amendment

Page 10: Women throughout American history. Women in the coloniesWomen in the colonies New England  Large families  Religious theocracy  No rights!  Long life

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776. – Susan B. Anthony

Page 11: Women throughout American history. Women in the coloniesWomen in the colonies New England  Large families  Religious theocracy  No rights!  Long life

Women in the 1920s

Flappers

The car

Equal Rights Amendment is introduced

Women compete for the first time in the Olympics in 1928

Women work in positions such as telephone operators, nurses and teachers (Numbers of working women raise 50.1%)

Page 12: Women throughout American history. Women in the coloniesWomen in the colonies New England  Large families  Religious theocracy  No rights!  Long life

Fashion: dark makeup “vamp style”, bobbed hair, shortened skirts

Page 13: Women throughout American history. Women in the coloniesWomen in the colonies New England  Large families  Religious theocracy  No rights!  Long life

Women in WWII

WAVES

WACS

Women join the workforce!

Page 14: Women throughout American history. Women in the coloniesWomen in the colonies New England  Large families  Religious theocracy  No rights!  Long life

Fashion: short straight skirts (cloth limited by War Production Board), “ready to wear”

Page 15: Women throughout American history. Women in the coloniesWomen in the colonies New England  Large families  Religious theocracy  No rights!  Long life

Women in the 1950s Cult of domesticity

Baby boom

Dr. Spock

Introduction of “the pill”

New technology gives women more spare time

Page 17: Women throughout American history. Women in the coloniesWomen in the colonies New England  Large families  Religious theocracy  No rights!  Long life

Women in the 1960 and 1970s“Second Wave Feminism”

Betty Friedan and the Feminine Mystique and the “problem that has no name”

Title VII, Equal Pay Act of 1963, Equal Educational Equity Act, Title IX, Title X, no fault divorce

Roe v Wade, Reed v Reed, Griswold v Connecticut

NOW: National Organization of Women!

Gloria Steinem and Ms. magazine

Fight for the Equal Rights Amendment

Phyllis Schlafly-When feminists talk about "women's rights," they mean a radical restructuring of society, with government using its power to force feminist goals on all the rest of us.

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Fashion: “fighting against society”, loose shirts, androgynous clothes, peasant blouses