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Endorsing Women's Enfranchisement, Adelle Hazlett (1871) [38] Hit: Essays on Women's Rights, Mary Edwards Walker (1871) On the Progress of Education and Industrial Avocations for Women, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1871) [39] "Put Us In Your Place" from The Revolution, Lillie Blake (1871) [40] On Woman's Right to Suffrage, Susan B. Anthony (1872) [41]
Le Droit des femmes, meaning Women's Rights (1869 to 1891) A Doll's House Repaired, Eleanor Marx Aveling (1891) [106] The Woman's Movement in the South, A.P. Mayo (1891) [107] "Transactions of the National Council of Women of the United States" (1891) [108] A Voice from the South, Anna Julia Cooper (1892)
Abolitionist and women's rights campaigner [39] 1700–1799: Judith Sargent Murray: United States: 1751: 1820: Early American proponent of female equality and author of On the Equality of the Sexes [40] 1700–1799: John Neal: United States: 1793: 1876: Writer, critic, and first American women's rights lecturer [41] [42] 1700–1799: Sarah ...
Writers like Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and poets Ezra Pound, H.D. and T. S. Eliot demonstrate the growth of an international perspective in American literature. American writers had long looked to European models for inspiration, but whereas the literary breakthroughs of the mid-19th century came from finding distinctly American styles and ...
The women's right to vote, with its legislative representation, represented a paradigm shift where women would no longer be treated as second-class citizens without a voice. The women's suffrage campaign is the most deeply embedded campaign of the past 250 years. [127] [dubious – discuss] At first, suffrage was treated as a lower priority.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:18th-century American people. It includes American people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. See also: Category:18th-century American men
From ancient history to the modern day, the clitoris has been discredited, dismissed and deleted -- and women's pleasure has often been left out of the conversation entirely. Now, an underground art movement led by artist Sophia Wallace is emerging across the globe to challenge the lies, question the myths and rewrite the rules around sex and the female body.
The American scene in the 1920s featured a widespread expansion of women's roles, starting with the vote in 1920, and including new standards of education, employment and control of their own sexuality. "Flappers" raised the hemline and lowered the old restrictions in women's fashion. The Italian-American media disapproved.