Women's+Rights

Bryan Zhu; Women's Rights

Compare and contrast the women’s suffrage movements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries with the European feminist movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Thesis: Topic 1: In the late 19th century and early 20th century, many women pushed for women's rights and suffrage and some were rewarded. Concrete Details:
 * 1) Emmeline Pankhurst
 * 2) Millicent Fawcett
 * 3) Wollstonecraft
 * 4) WWI
 * 5) Florence Nightingale
 * 6) Maria Montessori
 * 7) "new women"
 * 8) Bertha von Suttner
 * 9) Amalie Sieveking

Topic 2: In the second wave of the feminist movement, women pushed for their rights despite society's challenges.
 * 1) Simone de Beauvoir
 * 2) Existentialism
 * 3) //The Second Sex//
 * 4) Suffrage
 * 5) Betty Friedan
 * 6) //The Feminine Mystique//
 * 7) National Organization of Women (NOW)
 * 8) British Women's Liberation Workshop
 * 9) WWII