Women
throughout
American history
Women in the colonies
New England
Chesapeake
Large families
Very few women
Religious
theocracy
First women come in
1619
No rights!
Widowarchy
Long life
expectancy
Dame schools
Colonial Fashion: low necked, decorative
stomacher, large skirts, petticoats
Women in the Revolution and Early
America
Daughters of Liberty
Spinning bees
Boycotts
Republican
Motherhood
Abigail Adams “I beg of
you, remember the
ladies”
Women in Antebellum America
Cult of domesticity
Idea of separate spheres: Idea of the
“weaker sex”
Early female education: Oberlin
College, Mount Holyoke
Lowell Girls- New England
Second Great Awakening and reform:
Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Mary Lyon,
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
Women’s Christian Temperance
Union
Seneca Falls Convention: Declaration
of Sentiments
Antebellum Fashion: hoop skirts,
corset, bustle
Gilded Age Fashion: bustle, bodices,
straighter skirts
Lowell Girls
Oh! isn't it a pity,
such a pretty girl as
I-Should be sent to
the factory to pine
away and die?
Oh! I cannot be a
slave,
I will not be a slave,
For I'm so fond of
liberty
That I cannot be a
slave."
Women in the Progressive Era
Muckraking: Ida Tarbell and
Standard Oil
Social Gospel
Progressive Reformers: Jane
Addams, Florence Kelley, Carrie
Nation, Frances Willard, Ida B.
Wells
Suffrage is a HUGE issue!!:
NWSA: National Women’s
Suffrage Association (Carrie
Chapman Catt), American
Women’s Suffrage Association
(Lucy Stone), National Woman’s
Party (Alice Paul)
Margaret Sanger and Birth
Control
19th Amendment
Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876,
have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and
revolution than the men of 1776. – Susan B.
Anthony
Women in the 1920s
Flappers
The car
Equal Rights Amendment is
introduced
Women compete for the first
time in the Olympics in 1928
Women work in positions such
as telephone operators, nurses
and teachers (Numbers of
working women raise 50.1%)
Fashion: dark makeup “vamp style”,
bobbed hair, shortened skirts
Women in WWII
WAVES
WACS
Women join the
workforce!
Fashion: short straight skirts (cloth limited
by War Production Board), “ready to wear”
Women in the 1950s
Cult of domesticity
Baby boom
Dr. Spock
Introduction of “the pill”
New technology gives
women more spare time
Fashion: pencil skirts, sweaters, Bermuda
shorts, focus on comfort, nylon and spandex
Women in the 1960 and 1970s
“Second Wave Feminism”
Betty Friedan and the
Feminine Mystique and the
“problem that has no name”
Title VII, Equal Pay Act of
1963, Equal Educational
Equity Act, Title IX, Title X, no
fault divorce
Roe v Wade, Reed v Reed,
Griswold v Connecticut
NOW: National Organization
of Women!
Gloria Steinem and Ms.
magazine
Fight for the Equal Rights
Amendment
Phyllis Schlafly-When
feminists talk about "women's
rights," they mean a radical
restructuring of society, with
government using its power to
force feminist goals on all the
rest of us.
Fashion: “fighting against society”, loose
shirts, androgynous clothes, peasant blouses
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