Feminism throughout the years in the United States of America
Table of contents
Foreword…………………………………………………………………………………page 4
Chapter 1: The Beginning
1.1. The birth of the United States of America…………………………………………...page 5
1.2. The intimately oppressed…………………………………………………………….page 7
1.3. The first women of the new land……………………………………………………..page 8
1.4. The teachings of the Empire………………………………………………………….page 9
1.5. Trial and error………………………………………………………………………...page 11
1.6. Women and the Revolution…………………………………………………………..page 12
1.7. A new society, old mentality…………………………………………………………page 13
1.8. The cult of domesticity……………………………………………………………….page 15
Chapter 2: Taking action
2.1. The need to have a role in society……………………………………………………page 17
2.2. An unfair system……………………………………………………………………..page 18
2.3. Education for women………………………………………………………………...page 19
2.4. Issues needed to be resolved…………………………………………………………page 21
2.5. History being written, grievances being told………………………………………...page 22
Chapter 3: Universal suffrage
3.1. Confusion………………………………………………………………………….…page 25
3.2. The sense of failure…………………………………………………………………...page 27
3.3. Time for a new change………………………………………………………………..page 29
3.4 The voice of those unheard……………………………………………………………page 31
3.5. More delicate issues…………………………………………………………………..page 33
3.6. The prisons were being destroyed, the time for change had come…………………...page 37
Overview: Feminism today……………………………………………………………….page 42
Glossary of terms…………………………………………………………………………page 49
Bibliography……………………………………………………………………………....page 52
Foreword
Technically speaking, I do not believe there has ever been a single united feminism. There have been multiple feminisms representing the efforts of women to live into their full humanity in a world shaped by and for the generally larger and more violent male half of the human species.
To the extent that there is a capital-F...