After this, Castillo felt to better her life for her and her son so she went back to school. She received her masters in Latin American and Carribean studies and minored in secondary education. After graduating she went to teach English as a second language. She also taught Mexican and Mexican American history in community colleges throughout Chicago where she grew up. She taught feminist journal writing for several years and became a feminist activist herself.
It has been accepted for inclusion in Graduate Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Digital Repository @ Iowa State University. For more information, please contact hinefuku@iastate.edu. 00000000 The maximalist transformation of the female immigrant identity in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine and The Holder of the World By Lauren Hazenson A thesis submitted to the graduate faculty in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS Major: English (Literature) Program of Study Committee: Diane Price Herndl, Major Professor Constance J. Post Eugenio Matibag Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 2010 Copyright © Lauren Hazenson, 2010. All rights reserved.
The journal, History Review, is a national academic journal with illustrations, for collegiate history students. Published tri-annually, History Review is written by academic authors and historians. The author, Dr. Viv Sanders has written several published books about race relations. She is Head of History at an educational institution in the northeast. This article from History Review is useful as it presents accurate facts about Rosa Parks and her contribution to the civil right movement.
Critical Analysis: Shirley Chisholm Speech Equal Rights for Women In her famous speech “Equal Rights for Women,” addressed to The United States House of Representatives in Washington D.C, May 21, 1969, Chisholm addresses the assumption about women in society being treated unfair. She expresses how women are viewed in society and the prejudice against women that’s being accepted daily and sought out to secure equal rights for women by introducing a proposal “that has been before every Congress for the last 40 years and that will sooner or later must become part of the basic law of the land..”(1), as the Equal Rights Amendment. In her speech she not only expresses and highlights how women are viewed differently in many aspects of life but she refutes common arguments and shows how gender discrimination is harmful for both men and women in society. Early in her speech, Chisholm relied on her personal experience to persuade her case for Equal Rights. Chisholm stated, “Prejudice as a black person is becoming unacceptable...” (1) While she then states “Prejudice against women is acceptable” (1).
Her background was interdisciplinary and included a thorough grounding in linguistics, ethnology, and the history of religions, which was unusual for an archaeologist. In 1949, she moved to the United States, where she would remain until her death four decades later. With her extensive knowledge of European languages, Marija Gimbutas was employed by Harvard University in 1950. She was assigned the task of conducting research and writing texts regarding European prehistory. Gimbutas was able to read and translate the archaeological reports from Eastern Europe, which opened the American to new ideas on archeology.
Understanding the reasons that workers join unions has been a subject of scholarly debate for decades. This critical review examines an article that discusses a segment of an under-represented unionized workforce: Women. The article, “The Influences on Women Joining and Participating in Unions” (2005) was written by Gill Kirton, a professor at Queen Mary, University of London. The author explores why women join and participate in unions through analyzing four influences: family, union, work and feminism. Relying on qualitative data from a study of women in two male-dominated UK unions carried out between 1999 and 2002, the article maintains that family background, gendered experiences in both unions and the workplace, as well as feminist beliefs and values all combine to shape women’s union orientations in complex ways.
Her first project was to write a biography of Abraham Lincoln, similar to the one she’d written about Madame Roland. The time Ida spent on “The Life of Abraham Lincoln” sparked Ida’s interest in politics and made her more patriotic. Ida Tarbell’s personal experience as a girl in the oil region led to another assignment; a history of the Standard Oil Company. As Ida began to share the details of the effect the Standard Oil Company Trust had on her family and hometown, her interest in her assignment began to grow. John Phillips (partner at McClur’s) convinced Ida to write an outline to show to McClure.
Banner's book provided large amounts of information pertaining directly to women in America. Her book was helpful, informative, and the main resource for my portion of the report. Meredith Goldstein-LeVande. Women's Suffrage. http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/sufferage/home.htm Meredith Goldstein-LeVande provided useful information on the anti-sufferage movement.
Name: Luisa Thompson SO6102: Social Change and Social Movement Title: Women’s Liberation Movement: Critically discuss the cause and impacts of ‘Second Wave’ Feminism. Word Count: 4,000 Throughout history in America and Britain women have remained in the domestic sphere that were designated to them by patriarchal ideologies of gender construction where they were viewed as not individuals within their own right but as an extension of their husbands (Freeman, 1973). During the beginning of the 20th century, suffragettes such as Margaret Mead for America and Emmeline Pankhurst for Britain challenged the woman’s status of a housewife and a mother. In the 40’s and 50’s, it was this frustration of a woman’s socially constructed role that Betty Friedan’s ‘Feminine Mystique’ challenged the 1950’s image of a ‘happy, suburban housewife’ and functioned as the method of the women’s liberation movement that emerged in the 1960’s (Friedan, 1963). It was this growing awareness that women soon realised that their position within society was disproportionate to that of men as illustrated by Freeman (1971, p39), who states that “women are 51 percent of the population.
Females with bachelor's degrees earned $35,408 in 2000, compared with $49,982 for males. To this point in my point of view, it is absurd that women are still being underpaid for similar jobs occupied by men. Women worked hard in this society just like any men and still it is difficult for them to reach or break the glass ceiling that bare them from the executive office. This issue is not only a United States issue; it is a worldwide issue where women are