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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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 in previous centuries were expected to depend on their husbands or fathers for everything they needed, and as I said before were supposed to remain involved only in household affairs. ... The nineteenth amendment says " The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridge by the United States or by any state on account of sex." ...

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The early twentieth century was an era of business expansion and progressive reform in the United States. ... The struggle that American women endured from the Seneca Falls Convention to the passing of the nineteenth Amendment spanned two generations. ...

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