WOMEN’S RIGHTSMOVEMENT

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Susan B. Anthony 1820-1906, Suffragist

Anthony pushed for women’s right to vote also referred to as women’s suffrage.

Founded the National Women’s Suffrage Association in 1869.

Anthony was the first person arrested, put on trial, and fined for voting in 1872.

Anthony wrote the Susan B. Anthony amendment in 1878. This later became the 19th amendment.

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Susan B. Anthony Anthony published “The

Revolution” from 1868-1870. It was a weekly paper about the women suffrage movement.

Anthony served as the president of the National American Women’s Suffrage Association until 1900.

Anthony published “The History of Woman Suffrage” with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Matilda Joslyn Gage.

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Susan B. Anthony

What would you do in Anthony’s position?

Vote Not Vote

Susan B. Anthony

What would you do in Anthony’s position?

Pay the fine

Not pay the fine

Susan B. Anthony

What you do in Anthony’s position?

Fight for women’s suffrage

Not fight for women’s suffrage

Betty Friedan 1921-2006, writer, activist, feminist

Friedan was dissatisfied with her life as a housewife.

In 1963, Friedan published The Feminine Mystique which depicted the roles of full time homemakers.

In addition to The Feminine Mystique, Friedan also wrote The Second Stage, It Changed My Life, and The Fountain of Age.

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Betty Friedan

Through the publication of The Feminine Mystique, Friedan is often seen as starting the women movement of the 1960’s and the 1970’s.

Friedan cofounded the U.S. National Organization for Woman and served as its first president.

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Betty Friedan

Read the following excerpt from The Feminine Mystique and answer the questions. Every time you hear the applause, you have picked the right answer.

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Betty FriedanThe problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in

the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night—she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question—Is this all?“

For over fifteen years there was no word of this yearning in the millions of words written about women, for women, in all the columns, books and articles by experts telling women their role was to seek fulfillment as wives and mothers.

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Betty Friedan

What phrase did Friedan claim that many suburban wives asked themselves?

How many years did women keep quiet about their positions in the home?

Is this all? What should I do?

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What role should women be fulfilled by being in it?

Wives and mothers

Doctors and

lawyers

Carol Hanisch Founding member of New

York Radical Women Initiated the idea to

protest the Miss America pageant and disrupted it by hanging a women’s liberation banner over the balcony in 1968.

Wrote “What Can Be Learned: A Critique of the Miss America Protest”

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Carol Hanisch Organized southern women into the Women’s Liberation Movement

Wrote the essay “The Personal is Political” which became a popular phrase of the movement

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Carol Hanisch

What do you think? Should Carol Hanisch have protested the

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Carol Hanisch

Do you think Carol Hanisch was too radical?

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Carol Hanisch

Do you think the phrase “the personal is political” is a good phrase for the women’s rights movement?

Yes No

Gloria Steinem (1934-present) Writer, feminist Wrote the column called

“The City Politic” for New York Magazine

Publishes first feminist piece, “After Black Power, Women’s Liberation” in 1968

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Gloria Steinem

In 1971, Steinem joined the National Women’s Political Caucus.

Also in 1971, Steinem founded Ms. Magazine, the first magazine to offer a woman’s viewpoint on current issues.

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Gloria Steinem Read the following excerpt from an article from Ms. Magazine in 1972.

In the Harris-Setlow poll, 71 percent of the women questioned believed that "women are more sensitive to the problems of the poor and underprivileged than men are." A majority of women believed that "women attach greater value to human life" and "have more artistic ability and appreciation of the arts than men do." A majority of both men and women were convinced that a woman president would be less likely to take the country into war.

Women also believed that females were more pacifist than males; cared more about protecting consumer interests; found war less justifiable under any circumstance; and were generally less hardened to the suffering of other people. These cultural differences, the women respondents said, would be evident in decisions made by a woman in office.

Summing up both the 1971 and 1972 polls, Louis Harris agreed. "Women are voting differently from men," he said. "They are more inclined now to vote and to become active not only for their own self-interest, but for the interest of society, the world, and most of all, out of compassion for humanity."

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This article states that women appreciate the arts more.

True False

Gloria Steinem

Men and women are more convinced that a woman president would be more likely to take the country into war.

True False

Gloria Steinem

Do women vote differently than men?

Yes No

Other Women’s Rights Leaders

Simone de Beauvoir, a French philosopher, is associated with the women’s movement because of her idea that men have made women the “other” in society.

Eleanor Roosevelt was made chairwoman of the President’s Commission on the Status of Women under John F. Kennedy.

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Watch the following video about the women’s rights movement. To hear the video again press the play button. There may be questions from the video on the quiz.

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Directions: Each question is based on information in this

presentation. The questions are multiple choice. Choose the

answer you think is correct. You can not move on to the next question until you click the right answer. Again listen for the applause.

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Which women’s rights leader wrote The Feminine Mystique? Susan B. Anthony Carol Hanisch Betty Friedan Gloria Steinem

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Eleonor Roosevelt was made chairwoman by ________. John F. Kennedy Teddy Roosevelt Robert Kennedy Barack Obama

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Susan B. Anthony fought for Women’s right to vote Equal pay for women Better jobs for women Rights for African Americans

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Who founded Ms. Magazine? Eleanor Roosevelt Susan B. Anthony Jacqueline Kennedy Gloria Steinem

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________ protested the Miss American Pageant? Carol Hanisch Gloria Steinem Michelle Obama Eleanor Roosevelt

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