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Maria W. Stewart. Maria W. Stewart ( née Miller) (1803 – December 17, 1879) was an American teacher, journalist, abolitionist and lecturer known for her role in the anti-slavery and women's rights movements in the United States. The first known American woman to speak to a mixed audience of men and women, white and black, she was also the ...
t. e. The Nineteenth Amendment ( Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution prohibits the United States and its states from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex, in effect recognizing the right of women to vote. The amendment was the culmination of a decades-long movement for women's suffrage in ...
Origins. Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600 to 2000, began in 1997 with a small grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. [1] For six years, Kathryn Kish Sklar and her students at SUNY Binghamton developed document projects consisting of 20-30 transcribed documents focused around a historiographic question.
Centrum Praw Kobiet (in English Centre for Women's Rights) is a non-governmental organization in Poland that supports women's rights and the prevention of violence against women. About [ edit ] Centrum Praw Kobiet works to promote women's equality in Polish society and also is involved in preventing violence against women . [2]
Feminist children's literature. Feminist children's literature is the writing of children's literature through a feminist lens. Children's literature and women's literature have many similarities. Both often deal with being seen as weak and placed towards the bottom of a hierarchy. In this way feminist ideas are regularly found in the structure ...
Women's Rights Action Movement (WRAM) was founded in 2011 as a registered charity in the Solomon Islands. [1] The initial aims of the organisation included: to enable more women to participate in decision-making and leadership roles; to take affirmative action to combat inequalities faced by women; to challenge the prevalence of violence ...
Fanny and Robert Wait. Distributed by. Women Make Movies. Release date. March 2013. ( 2013-03) Running time. 64 minutes. Feminist: Stories from Women's Liberation is a 2013 documentary film written and directed by Jennifer Lee.
Elizabeth Smith was born September 20, 1822, in Peterboro, New York. She was the daughter of antislavery philanthropist Gerrit Smith and his spouse, the abolitionist Ann Carroll Fitzhugh. [2] She studied at the Young Ladies' Domestic Seminary in Clinton, New York (1835–1836), then at a Quaker school in Philadelphia (1839–1840).