American Studies 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: The Open Definition, Intersectionality, Third-Wave Feminism

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

Document Summary

Margaret fuller: women in the 19th century (the great lawsuit) 1845. Seneca falls convention and the declaration of sentiments 1848. Susan b. anthony and elizabeth cady stanton found in national women"s suffrage. First birth control clinic opened by margaret sanger 1916. 19th amendment 1920: as moral heads of the family, women should have a say in the political realm as it effects the private sphere. States laws were also passed that gave women some rights: the right to inherit, the right to divorce under certain circumstances. There was also a call to make legal the refusal of intercourse: non-consensual and in marriage. Simone de beauvoir 1908-1986: french philosopher, writer, political activist and feminist, 1949. Publishes the second sex which was first translated to english in 1953. Generally understood as the book that launches second wave feminism: three important ideas in de beauvoir"s understanding of women"s oppression.