Feminist+and+Women's+Suffrage+Movements

Masha Kremliovsky


 * Prompt:** Compare and contrast the women's suffrage movements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries with the feminist movements of the 1960s and 1970s.


 * Thesis:** Women's suffrage movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which focused more around war, and feminist movements of the 1960s and 1970s, which also became involved with other movements of the time, both strove to achieve equality with men and gain rights as a female individual.

__Women's Suffrage Movements__ __Feminist Movements__
 * Outline:**
 * teaching was first new profession open to women, then nursing
 * Sieveking - founded the Female Association for the Care of the Poor and Sick in Hamburg, Germany
 * Nightingale - famous British nurse, efforts in the Crimean War
 * Barton - American Civil War, transformed nursing into a profession of trained, middle-class "women in white"
 * Fawcett - organized moderate group - women must demonstrate they would use political power responsibly if they wanted Parliament to grant them the right to vote
 * Pankhurst - founded Women's Social and Political Union 1903 (middle and upper class women), used unusual publicity in media to call attention to feminist demands
 * Davinson - accepted martyrdom after throwing herself in front of king's horse at Epsom Derby horse race
 * von Suttner - Austria Peace Soxiety, peace movements, //Lay Down Your Arms//
 * Montessori - "The New Woman" (a woman who followed a rational, scientific perspective), Montessori schools for mentally retarded children (educational reforms)
 * de Beauvoir's //The Second Sex// - women had always been perceived as secondary to men
 * Friedan's //The Feminine Mystique// - argued that women were being denied equality with men
 * National Organization of Women (NOW) - goal was to take 'action to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of American society //now//, exercising all the privileges and responsibilities thereof in truly equal partnership with men'
 * feminism - women's liberation movement
 * France - 1968 sale of contraceptive devices permitted, 1979 abortion legalized
 * development of new cultural attitudes - courses in women's studies in universities
 * joined ecological movement - Green Party in Germany
 * antinuclear movement - 1982 protested American nuclear missiles in Britain by chaining selves to fence of American military base, peace camp around it "for peace, for women, for the world"
 * international conferences - Western women spoke about political, economic, cultural, and sexual rights; women from developing countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia focused on bringing an end to violence, hunger, and disease that haunt their lives