Women’s Rights

1. Women’s Rights

2. Questions for today: What did the 19th-century Woman’s Movement want? What impact did it have? 1) From Abolition to Women’s Rights 2) Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton 3) Convention in Seneca Falls, NY, 1848 4) The Woman’s Movement 5) Elizabeth Blackwell 6) Suffrage movement 7) Impact of the Woman’s Movement

3. 1. From Abolition to Women’s Rights • Women wanted to participate in the political process • Abolitionist women had the courage to join an unpopular cause

4. 2. Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

5. 3. Seneca Falls convention, 1848 • 2-day conference to discuss the condition and rights of women • 200 women and 40 men showed up • Demanded full civil rights for women (including the right to vote)

6. 4. The Woman’s Movement • Focus on concerns of the middle class • Major goal: change public opinion about women’s capabilities • Push for legal equality: to keep wages, own property, divorce violent husband • Gradual success in property and divorce laws • No success against sexual violence

7. 5. Elizabeth Blackwell, MD • Admitted to Geneva Medical School (as a joke) • Graduated top of her class, the first woman M.D. • Opened her own hospital • In 2000, only 23% of doctors were women

8. 6. Suffrage Movement • Suffrage organizations formed 1869 • Susan B. Anthony, tireless Quaker reformer

9. “Age of Iron, or Man as He Expects to be” (1869)

10. “Age of Brass, or the Triumph of Women’s Rights” (1869)

11. Male anti-suffragists in Vicksburg, Mississippi

12. Suffrage procession in Minneapolis, 1914

13. The achievement of women’s suffrage: 19th Amendment in 1920

14. 7. Impact of the Woman’s Rights Movement • Changed women’s expectations, sense of purpose • Legal and economic changes come slowly • In 2005, women made 87 cents to each man’s dollar • “Normalization” of the vote, but not of other reforms

15. Susan B. Anthony dollar (1979) • Replaced by…

16. Sacajawea (1999)

17. 2007 edition