These symbols represent Gilman's view on the status of women in the patriarchal society of the nineteenth century. ... In more general terms, it symbolizes the destructive effect of the oppressive patriarchal society on the women in the nineteenth century. ...
The feminist movement was one of the most important social movements of the 19th and 20th centuries. ... Women have been fighting for many centuries now, just for equality. ... Since the nineteenth century women have been constantly active, rallying and lobbying in the hope they will improve their rank in society. ... On August 26, 1920 the Nineteenth Amendment joined the Constitution and twenty six million American women became eligible to vote. ...
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the best known and most conspicuous advocate of woman's rights in the nineteenth century. ... Stanton was the first person to launch every major advance achieved for woman in the nineteenth century and many of the reforms occurring in the twentieth century. ...
The First Wave of the feminist movement began in the nineteenth century with the suffragettes' fight for political and legal equality. ... The feminist movement has been fighting for this change in society since the nineteenth century, and many accomplishments for the female gender have been achieved in the process. ...
In 1920 women fought for their right to be women, to have their sexuality recognized, and were granted the right to vote nationwide in the nineteenth amendment to the US Constitution. ... What happened to, "a woman's body, a woman's right," the recognizing of a woman's control of her own body, which feminists have fought for over the past centuries (i.e. 1920, Universal Suffrage granted in the US). ... Radical feminist Wendy McElroy writes, "It was 18th century law, not pornography, that defined women as chattel. 19th century laws allowed men to commit wayward women to insane as...
By the early 19th century, however, acceptable occupations for working women were limited to factory labor or domestic work. ... Corset wearing, however, slowly became less popular as the century dragged on. ... At the end of the nineteenth century, women became more drawn to sports. ...
According to Short Stories for Students Gilman was not only a prominent feminist but also a radical social thinker at the turn of the century (SSS. 277).The theme of the short story is the social imprisonment of womankind. ... Ironically this plot is typical of what many women experienced everyday in the late nineteenth century. ...
Since the first women's rights movement in Seneca Falls 1848, the Women's Equal Rights Movement has made immense gains in the recent century. This progress can be seen by the passing of the nineteenth amendment, ability to choose any career, equality in American liberties, and overall right to happiness. ... Over the course of the last century, the feminist movement has transformed from the likes of the Senenca Falls Convention and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to the likes of philosophers such as Evelyn Fox Keller. ...
At the end of the nineteenth century, America moved from the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era where the social activists, politicians, and professionals called for social reforms in order to deal with the social problems associated with the rapid industrial growth. ...
Virginia Woolf used the pretense of universality in her writing as a front for her struggle for women's liberty. Despite her rejection of the feminist label, Virginia Woolf's goal in writing To The Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway was to fight for feminist causes, not universal equality. "It seems to ...
