American Studies 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Betty Friedan, Seneca Falls Convention

• School: Western University
• Department: American Studies
• Course: American Studies 1020
• Professor: Tom Cull

Document Summary

Main focus: sufrage and representaion the right to vote and representaion within the. Margaret fuller, women in the 19th century (the great lawsuit) 1845. Seneca falls convenion and the declaraion of seniments 1848. Susan b, anthony and elizabeth cady stanton found naional women"s sufrage associaion. 1869: agitaing for the right to vote. State rights the right to execute the a will, the right to divorce, etc: they happen at diferent imes and places. The winning of the right to vote is the biggest achievement for the irst wave. First birth control clinic opened by margaret sanger 1916. Main focus: gender equality equal pay; equal rights to women and men in the work force, and sexuality and reproducive rights (birth control) De beauvoir was an existenialist: existence precedes essence. You are born and you are raw material. This realizaion that you are ulimately free free to create who you are: essence precedes existence.