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Women throughout American history
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
Colonial Fashion: low necked, decorative stomacher, large skirts, petticoats
Women in the Revolution and Early America
Daughters of Liberty
Spinning bees
Boycotts
Republican Motherhood
Abigail Adams “I beg of you, remember the ladies”
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
Antebellum Fashion: hoop skirts, corset, bustle
Gilded Age Fashion: bustle, bodices, straighter skirts
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."
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
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
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%)
Fashion: dark makeup “vamp style”, bobbed hair, shortened skirts
Women in WWII
WAVES
WACS
Women join the workforce!
Fashion: short straight skirts (cloth limited by War Production Board), “ready to wear”
Women in the 1950s Cult of domesticity
Baby boom
Dr. Spock
Introduction of “the pill”
New technology gives women more spare time
Fashion: pencil skirts, sweaters, Bermuda shorts, focus on comfort, nylon and spandex
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.
Fashion: “fighting against society”, loose shirts, androgynous clothes, peasant blouses