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Feminism
Connotations
• Completely unaware
• Feminism has achieved its goals
• Fear of man-hating women
First Wave - Goals
• Suffrage• 19th Amendment
• Abolitionist Movement• Somewhat abandoned when African-Americans Gained
the right to vote
• Temperance Movement• Prohibition
First Wave - Achievements
• Seneca Falls Convention 1848• Formal founding of Feminism• 300 Women and Men
• Sojourner Truth “Ain’t I a Woman” – 1851
• University of Iowa – 1955
• Married Woman's Property Act – 1960
• Ida B. Wells’ work Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases - 1892
First Wave - Achievements
• The March for Women’s Suffrage in Washington D.C. – 1913
• WWI
• 19th Amendment
First Wave - Downfalls
• Married or widowed > unmarried
• Still questioned racial suffrage
• Some felt superiority• Mothers and nurturing = More fit to lead
First Wave - Criticisms
• Threatening man-haters
• Weak and clueless
• Ugly and witch like
Between the First and Second Waves
• Great Depression• Total suffering diminished the concern for women's issues
• WWII• New job opportunities
• Rosie the Riveter• Supported the war effort
• Created a sense of self sufficiency
Between the First and Second Waves
• Post WWII• Men came home to reclaim their previous jobs
• Left women with a taste of independence
• Led to a new culture of domesticity• Less women working in 1960 than in 1930
Second Wave
• Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique – 1963
• PCSW-1963• Inequality in the workplace• Equal Pay Act of 1963
Second Wave
• National Organization for Women -1966• Freedom and equality for women• Specifically stated that they were not man-haters• Also did not want special treatment for women• Achievements
• ERA – 1972• Title IX Education Amendment - 1972
• Women’s Liberation Movement• Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City - 1968
• Freedom Trash Can• Media attention
Third Wave
• Rebecca Walker’s Becoming the Third Wave
• Clarence Thomas
• Inequality for women
• Widespread public reaction
• Started the Third Wave
Third Wave
• Third Wave Direct Action Corporation• Freedom Summer ’92
• 20,000 new voters
Third Wave
• Issues• Gender violence• Reproductive rights• Rape• Derogatory terms• Inequality in the workplace
• Unequal treatment• Sexual assault
Reason for the Connotations
• Each Wave Has Contributed:• First Wave • Second Wave• Third Wave
Conclusion