Women throughout American history Women in the colonies

Women throughout American history

Women in the colonies New England Chesapeake Large families Very few women Religious theocracy First women come in 1619 No rights! Widowarchy Long life expectancy Dame schools

Colonial Fashion: low necked, decorative stomacher, large skirts, petticoats

Women in the Revolution and Early America Daughters of Liberty Spinning bees Boycotts Republican Motherhood Abigail Adams “I beg of you, remember the ladies”

Women in Antebellum America Cult of domesticity Idea of separate spheres: Idea of the “weaker sex” Early female education: Oberlin College, Mount Holyoke Lowell Girls- New England Second Great Awakening and reform: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Mary Lyon, Angelina and Sarah Grimke Women’s Christian Temperance Union Seneca Falls Convention: Declaration of Sentiments

Antebellum Fashion: hoop skirts, corset, bustle

Gilded Age Fashion: bustle, bodices, straighter skirts

Lowell Girls Oh! isn't it a pity, such a pretty girl as I -Should be sent to the factory to pine away and die? Oh! I cannot be a slave, I will not be a slave, For I'm so fond of liberty That I cannot be a slave. "

Women in the Progressive Era Muckraking: Ida Tarbell and Standard Oil Social Gospel Progressive Reformers: Jane Addams, Florence Kelley, Carrie Nation, Frances Willard, Ida B. Wells Suffrage is a HUGE issue!!: NWSA: National Women’s Suffrage Association (Carrie Chapman Catt), American Women’s Suffrage Association (Lucy Stone), National Woman’s Party (Alice Paul) Margaret Sanger and Birth Control 19 th Amendment

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776. – Susan B. Anthony

Women in the 1920 s Flappers The car Equal Rights Amendment is introduced Women compete for the first time in the Olympics in 1928 Women work in positions such as telephone operators, nurses and teachers (Numbers of working women raise 50. 1%)

Fashion: dark makeup “vamp style”, bobbed hair, shortened skirts

Women in WWII WAVES WACS Women join the workforce!

Fashion: short straight skirts (cloth limited by War Production Board), “ready to wear”

Women in the 1950 s Cult of domesticity Baby boom Dr. Spock Introduction of “the pill” New technology gives women more spare time

Fashion: pencil skirts, sweaters, Bermuda shorts, focus on comfort, nylon and spandex

Women in the 1960 and 1970 s “Second Wave Feminism” Betty Friedan and the Feminine Mystique and the “problem that has no name” Title VII, Equal Pay Act of 1963, Equal Educational Equity Act, Title IX, Title X, no fault divorce Roe v Wade, Reed v Reed, Griswold v Connecticut NOW: National Organization of Women! Gloria Steinem and Ms. magazine Fight for the Equal Rights Amendment Phyllis Schlafly-When feminists talk about "women's rights, " they mean a radical restructuring of society, with government using its power to force feminist goals on all the rest of us.

Fashion: “fighting against society”, loose shirts, androgynous clothes, peasant blouses