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Les Femmes et l’Alphabet

Les Femmes et l’Alphabet. Martha Parris le 18 mars, 2003. Les Femmes et l’Alphabet. Doivent-elles l’apprendre?. Woman must be either a subject or an equal. Monarchy vs Democracy Monarchy views masses as children to be governed.

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Les Femmes et l’Alphabet

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  1. Les Femmes et l’Alphabet Martha Parris le 18 mars, 2003

  2. Les Femmes et l’Alphabet • Doivent-elles l’apprendre?

  3. Woman must be either a subject or an equal • Monarchy vs Democracy • Monarchy views masses as children to be governed. • Democracy views masses as mature beings who may govern themselves.

  4. Politics • At present (1859) “…there is no aristocracy save sex: All men are born patrician, all women are legally plebian; all men are equal in having power and all women [equal] in having none.” Carrie Catt

  5. A New Era • “Time has brought peace; peace, invention; and the poorest woman of to-day is born to an inheritance such as her ancestors never dreamed of.” Carrie Catt

  6. Tout est Possible

  7. A Changing Future • Cartoon showing a woman carrying buckets on a yoke, looking up at ladder ascending up to the sky, • bottom rungs labeled "Slavery," "House Drudgery," and "Shop Work." • Top rungs labeled "Equal Suffrage," "Wage Equity," and "Presidency."

  8. Legal Rights • 1859 – “….vast changes over the past twelve years….no trumpet sounded, no earthquake felt while State after State has ushered into legal existence one half of the population…” Carrie Catt

  9. Legal Rights (1859) • Separate control of property, • Control of own earnings, • Equal participation of the sexes in education in Boston

  10. Work and Education • Ought women to learn the alphabet? • Women excluded from learning work skills. • Women excluded from education.

  11. American Suffragists • Carrie C. Catt • Anna H. Shaw • Lucy Stone • Sojourner Truth

  12. Voting in 1920

  13. French Suffragettes • Olympe de Gouges • Hubertine Auclert • Georges Sand • Flora Tristan

  14. Justice Demands the Vote

  15. France 1945

  16. Images and quotations used by gracious permission of the Library of Congress, the American Memory Collection.

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