Feminism

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