WS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Iron Jawed Angels, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lydia Taft

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Women’s Studies
• Course: WS 200
• Professor: Schuber

Document Summary

1718 women in sweden were able to vote if tax paying guild members (merchants) 1756 lydia taft voted in massachusetts under british rule. 1776 women in new jersey could vote if unmarried, lost vote when us consitution restricted to white males. 1905 finland allowed women to vote and stand for election. 1913- norway, denmark, australian, canada, soviet russia, germany, poland allowed women to vote. Prove that we are not communists: better dead than red. Added in god we trust to money. Culture is beginning to change at a more rapid rate: women beginning to go to college, get jobs, new wave of living in communities, more mobile . Rise of 2nd wave of women"s movement. Beginnings of the gay movement- stonewall riots.