History 1401E Lecture 8: Women in History (Europe)
1 Apr 2016
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Women"s movements in the 19th century: initial highpoint of 1848, women attempted and fail to achieve greater social and political rights. Les voix des femmes, die frauenzeitung, seneca falls convention, july 1848. 1848 revolution crushed the women"s movement: newspapers no longer allowed to publish women in politics (until 1881, desire for equal rights opposed by the conservatives. Claiming that women were inferior to men, bringing about a mathematical. Women"s rights to engage in politics were strongly restricted 1808: traditional different cultures. Germany general goal of women"s groups was not the right to vote but the ability to exercise women"s traditional roles // what women should be like // post. Wwi women gained the right to vote in europe. 1870s women"s rights movement began to gain international notoriety. Goals of the women"s rights movement: mostly middle class // access to education, professional opportunities, creating an alternative to marriage. !1: sales personnel clerks, cashiers somewhat acceptable for middle class women.
