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During the 1899 New Women's Movement Initiative (NWMI), Social Justice Feminism was made the emphasis of the women's movement. The NWMI was a series of meetings meant to “build relationships, trust, and analysis necessary to revitalize US feminism” [1] During these meetings, there was a struggle to agree on, “whether the women’s movement should aspire to be about [women’s] rights or ...
Historians of women and of youth emphasize the strength of the progressive impulse in the 1920s. Women consolidated their gains after the success of the suffrage movement, and moved into causes such as world peace, good government, maternal care (the Sheppard–Towner Act of 1921), and local support for education and public health.
Iran: In order to prepare for an abolition of the veil and social gender segregation, women teachers and students are encouraged to appear unveiled: this is followed the next year by an order to male politicians to introduce their wives to representational gender mixed social life. [21] Turkey: Women gain the right to stand for election.
The woman's club movement became part of Progressive era social reform, which was reflected by many of the reforms and issues addressed by club members. [3] According to Maureen A. Flanagan, [4] many women's clubs focused on the welfare of their community because of their shared experiences in tending to the well-being of home-life.
[18] [19] By the Hellenistic Period, some of the wealthiest Spartans were women. [20] Spartan women controlled their own properties, as well as the properties of male relatives who were away with the army. [18] But despite relatively greater freedom of movement for Spartan women, their role in politics was the same as Athenian women. [17]
But the Great Depression brought new assaults on civil liberties; the year 1930 saw a large increase in the number of free speech prosecutions, a doubling of the number of lynchings, and all meetings of unemployed persons were banned in Philadelphia. [110] The Franklin D. Roosevelt administration proposed the New Deal to combat
Perrault's French fairy tales, for example, were collected more than a century before the Grimms' and provide a more complex view of womanhood. But as the most popular, and the most riffed-on, the Grimms' are worth analyzing, especially because today's women writers are directly confronting the stifling brand of femininity they proliferated.
The first women's rights convention was the Seneca Falls Convention, a regional event held on July 19 and 20, 1848, in Seneca Falls in the Finger Lakes region of New York. [3] Five women called the convention, four of whom were Quaker social activists, including the well-known Lucretia Mott.