WMNS 2304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Intersectionality, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: Women's/Gender/Sexualty Stdies
• Course: WMNS 2304
• Professor: Sara B.Picklesimer

Document Summary

Liberal feminism - women and men are alike and equal. Cultural feminism - women and men are fundamentally different and should therefore have different rights, roles and opportunities. First wave begun in 1840 and ended in 1925. The women"s rights movement (liberal ideology) the activism was aimed at enlarging women"s political rights. Mott and elizabeth cady stanton organised the rst women"s rights convention in. The cult of domesticity (cultural ideology) 1800"s - many women did not ally with women"s rights movement, the true ideal of womanhood was to be domestic. It was believed that women and men were not alike. Activism in the rst wave- backlash against feminism occurred. The antisufferage movement tried to prevent women from voting but women gained the right to vote in: the attention shifted to the world war, and the women joined the workforce to support war efforts. Radical and liberal feminism- radical feminism was rst to emerge during the second wave.