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Rise of feminism in the west. Women’s sphere. Abolitionist movement of the 1830’s to 50’s had roots out of the Quaker faith, and other religious groups Church being within the sphere of women’s public activities gave women the opportunity at political activism.
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Abolitionist movement of the 1830’s to 50’s had roots out of the Quaker faith, and other religious groups • Church being within the sphere of women’s public activities gave women the opportunity at political activism. • Women learn political organization and find voice and opinion. Women and the abolitionist movement
Seneca falls convention-1848(Elizabeth cady Stantonsojourner truth)
Resolved, That woman is man's equal—was intended to be so by the Creator, and the highest good of the race demands that she should be recognized as such. • He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead.4 • “And ain’t I a woman?” Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
Post Civil War, Freedmen’s Bureau • Temperance Movement (Carrie Nation; domestic abuse) • Progressive Era: Child Labor; Prisons; Education (more women now going to college, especially from privileged families Additional activism
NAWSA- National American Women’s Suffrage Association • Founded in May 1890 • Leadership turned over to Carrie Chapman Catt in 1900 Susan b. Anthony and the suffrage movement
The post-WWI world saw great change for women in the United Kingdom and the United States. • What factors were present that may have allowed their progress, but not those of women in other cultures around the world?