HIS 72B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: National Woman'S Party, Nineteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution
Document Summary
Women"s organizing and politics after the nineteenth amendment"s enactment. Equal rights amendment (era): men and women shall have equal rights throughout the us and every place subject to its jurisdiction . Distinction between suffrage movement and feminist movement. Word began to be seen in dictionaries in 1913-1914. French activists started using this word in the 1880s, and then it migrated across the channel when the brits took it and started to use it in a derogatory way to oppose women"s rights. In 1910s, it emerged in the us because there was a need for the language that would be used to express a gap that people wanted but did not have the means to express yet. Goals of feminism at this time were bigger than suffragism, but there were fewer people involved in the movement so it was more narrow in that sense.
