WOMS200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Susan B. Anthony, Seneca Falls Convention
22 May 2018
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Lecture 9
Historical Perspectives
Definitions of Feminism
• Bell Hooks – a oeet to ed seis, seist eploitatio, ad oppessio
• Chimamanda Adichie – the soial, politial, ad eooi eualit of the sees
History Becomes Herstory
• Who did history traditionally focus on?
• Whe did histo stat to ilude oe’s lies?
• Who else was history missing?
Feminism Wave Model
• Often used to structure and canonize the history of feminism
• 1st wave – late 19th to early 20th century
• 2nd wave – 1960s-1990s
• 3rd wave – 1990s-
• Why do the authors say that the wave model is criticized?
• Are we entering a 4th wave?
• What stories are still left out and why?
Abolitionist Movement, Anti-Lynching Campaign, and The Suffrage Movement (1830-1920)
• Many women active in the abolitionist movement
• Coetios etee oe’s oppessio ad slae
• How did the Civil War and 15th Amendment (1870) divide women?
• Women were also speaking out against lynching
• Suffragists focused primarily on:
o Getting women to vote at the state level
o Itoduig a e ostitutioal aedet that stated: The ight of itizes
of the US to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the US or any state on
aout of se.
• 19th Amendment – introduced in Congress in 1878, ratified in 1920
• Examples:
o “aah & Agelia Gike, A Appeal to the Chistia Woe i the “outh
o Lucretia Mott, 1848 Seneca Falls Convention
o Sojourner Truth, 1851 Speech
o Ida B Wells, A Red Reod
o Susan B Anthony
Labor Organizing and Equal Rights Movement (1870-1930)
• Who was leading this movement?
• What ae soe eaples of diisie hieahies duig this tie peiod?
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