Feminism has been around for centuries. ... (LeGates 494) In Europe, before the nineteenth century, women were considered to be inferior and all the power was given to men. ... Throughout the world in the nineteenth century feminist were shifting from arguments on equal rights based on similarities of the sexes to the differences between men and women. ... The nineteenth and eighteenth century created new developments in feminism including arguments from equality and arguments from differences. ... During the early nineteenth and eighteenth century feminist argued about equal rights and thin...

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Throughout the nineteenth century, women's rights became apparent because of the civil war as seen through women's effects of economic, social, cultural, and political landscape of the nation. ... Women would later gain the right to vote with the passing of the nineteenth amendment. ... Similarly, the fact that women could not vote in the nineteenth century was of no impedance to Dorothea Dix. ... The nineteenth century were pivotal years in the evolution of women's rights in America. ... Therefore, these stepping stone paved the way for women's right, even for Hillary Cli...

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The concept of single women, as we know it today, has drastically changed since the Nineteenth Century. ... In terms of women's rights, the Nineteenth Century was very different from the Twenty-First Century life that is familiar to us. ... In conclusion, life in the Nineteenth Century would've been difficult for any single woman to handle. ...

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Part I: The Emergence of a Popular Women's Consciousness The great thing was women woke up an in18th century. ... "The emergence of a popular woman's consciousness of difference from, and antagonism to, men, developing through four phases of women's religious activity, from the mid eighteenth century through the late nineteenth century." ... In the latter half of the nineteenth century, although women's religious activity began to beyond the way they used to do, they liked a such young baby who could not be independent from the parent. ... The WCTU played a sig...

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Then the first Women's Rights Convention was held on July nineteenth and twentieth in 1848. ... The women's rights movement of the late nineteenth century went on to address the wide range of issues spelled out at the Seneca Falls Convention. ... Anna Howard Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt were leaders of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in the early years of the 20th century, who got the campaign to its final success. ...

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Certainly the grabbing, hooting, hollering, and exploitation, would not be as accepted in today's society as it was some fifty years ago. 2 So, I had to wonder about the changing role of women, expectations placed on them as well as their accepted role in society, over the last century. ... Women were still fighting for the nineteenth amendment to pass (the right to vote and not to be discriminated based on sex), they wanted to be able to practice every right which a man would practice. The nineteenth amendment was passed in 1920, but still women were not granted much personal an...

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As one historian had but it, motherhood was undergoing "modernization" in the nineteenth century, and the modernization of motherhood implied a willingness to seek advice and information from those who were considered to have an expertise based on systematic knowledge. ...

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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. ...

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Progressives' especially middle class female activists helped spearhead the movement for laws that restricted child labor in 38 states by the late nineteenth century. ... After the turn of the century, leaders of a new association, the Congressional Union, took the campaign to the national level. ... America never could have risen to its dominant place in the world of industrial nations without the backbreaking toil of its workers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. ...

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The plight of equal rights for women has had an extensive, long-suffering and tumultuous history. Even though women have argued intensely to attain their privileges, they continue to labor for workplace equality, reproductive rights, and to overcome religious and cultural barriers. The conflict for ...

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The American temperance movement, which began during the 19th century, called for a total ban on the sale, transport, and purchase of alcoholic beverages. ... These liquor companies did everything they could to stop the efforts of women's suffrage activists, and were very successful, up until the early 20th century. ... The temperance movement of the early 20th century transcended the individualized, completely separate "worlds" set aside for each gender, and truly affected women on a personal level. ... The divorce and property laws of the early 20th century limited the power o...

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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. ...

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Jerome in the fourth century and St. ... This ideal, known at The Cult of True Womanhood, was presented to women of the nineteenth century by women's magazines, annuals, and religious literature (Welter 151). ... Postwar economic changes in the late nineteenth century resulted in women beginning to work outside the home in increasing numbers. ... The social, economic and political changes that shook the South at the end of the nineteenth century greatly influenced the lives of its women. ... As the nineteenth century drew to a close, the southern lady, long condemned to life on a pede...

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Later on, she campaigned hard to get the nineteenth amendment passed in 1920, which allowed women to vote. ... Rosa Parks is considered to be one of the most important people of the 20th century. ... John Winthrop's message of "the city on the hill" illustrates what has been accomplished over the past century. ...

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Since the early nineteenth and twentieth Century women have been demanding equality regarding education, the work force, legal rights, and not being treated as second-class citizens. Even, with the turn of the century woman still have to prove that they are capable of having a career, being a mother, and a wife. ...

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Other elements on the photograph, such as high sealing connote Victorian interior and black color scheme connotes the dark side of the nineteenth century. ... "(Barthes, 1964:156) The functions of a linguistic message with regard to the iconic message indicated that this is an Alexander McQueen's fashion advert and therefore fashion aware people would connect it and understand it according to his brand ethos and inspirations, just as Caroline Evans described his style in her essay; Desire and Dread: Alexander McQueen and the Contemporary Femme Fatale: His first collections were Vict...

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The phrase "women's era" was fast becoming commonplace as women moved ever more from the private sector to the public one at the turn of the century. "What women looked to as they marched confidently into the next century was a new, improved womanhood and motherhood that would make its decisive imprint on a better society. 1 The twentieth century women's organizations placed much emphasis on the importance and rights of mothers and potential mothers. ... Hull House "provided members with a lifelong substitute for family life" that enabled women to commit their energies tow...

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Not ago, in the nineteenth century, the words that our forefathers wrote in the Declaration of Independence, "that all men were created equal," held little value. ... The later part of the nineteenth century was not an easy time for Stanton. ... While Stanton never did get to see the rewards of her life long struggle, the nineteenth amendment, which allowed women the right to vote, was passed nearly 20 years after her death. ... Now that I have provided an extensive overview of Elizabeth Stanton and the women's movement during the late nineteenth century, I will now be taking a closer loo...

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Not ago, in the nineteenth century, the words that our forefathers wrote in the Declaration of Independence, "that all men were created equal," held little value. ... The later part of the nineteenth century was not an easy time for Stanton. ... While Stanton never did get to see the rewards of her life long struggle, the nineteenth amendment, which allowed women the right to vote, was passed nearly 20 years after her death. ... Now that I have provided an extensive overview of Elizabeth Stanton and the women's movement during the late nineteenth century, I will now be taking a closer loo...

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Despite the suffrage movements and the other accomplishments made by women of the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century America, The Great Gatsby shows that there was still moral rectitude and denigration of women due to the inherent boisterous and arrogant characteristics of men. ... In general, women of the early twentieth century New York were disregarded for their shortcomings than they were applauded for their good deeds.  Women of the early twentieth century experienced a multifaceted discrimination. ... These and many other events in the novel reveal that wo...

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Amber Ashpole Social Division of the Pacific Northwest in the Early 20th Century The Pacific Northwest by definition of it geography encouraged a split social environment. ... Therefore, even though the geography of the Pacific Northwest played a large part in creating a social division in the early 20th century, it was the lack of economic, political, and social rights for women that had the most profound affect on the populace. ... The Cult of True Womanhood was a series of rules and suggestions for the urbanized women of the early 20th Century. ... By gaining the respect of men,...

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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...

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Women of the nineteenth century were not treated with the respect that most women of today obtain. ... The women of the twenty-first century, however, are more educated and have the opportunity to establish a career of their own. Although today, most women do not receive the equivalent treatment as men, they are allowed more privileges than have been granted to women in the centuries before. ...

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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. ...

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Women of the nineteenth century were not treated with the respect that most women of today obtain. ... The women of the twenty-first century, however, are more educated and have the opportunity to establish a career of their own. Although today, most women do not receive the equivalent treatment as men, they are allowed more privileges than have been granted to women in the centuries before. ...

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