It can also be argued that there are rival traditions within all conventional ideologues. Classic and modern liberalism have contrasting ideas in economic versus social liberalism and positive versus negative freedom while socialists are at odds over the goal of socialism and the road to achieve that goal. In this sense feminism is completely typical of conventional ideologies. The first wave of feminism was deeply influenced by the ideas and values of liberalism. The philosophical basis of liberal feminism lies in the principle of individualism.
Challenging Notions of Womanhood: A Chronological Narrative Leading up to 1920, notable figures like Alice Paul and Harriot Blatch led the way in many changes in America that challenged previously established notions of the role and status of women in society. Surely, the road leading up to the passing of the 19th
Graduating from Strathmore College in 1901, Alice later went on to receive additional including earning a PhD. and graduating from a law school. While studying social work in England, she was introduced to more radical ideas in the Women’s Suffrage movement. No longer a timid Quaker girl, Alice became a radical advocate for women’s rights when she met Christabel Pankhurst, one of the daughters of Emmiline Pankhurst. The Pankhurst women were militant suffragist who stood by the notion of “deeds, not words”.
Ms. Eastman laid out a feminist roadmap appealing to the emotional independent desires of women in America. Gaining freedom is the ultimate goal of Ms. Eastman’s essay, however, handling the future properly depended on which approach women took. Did they flood the world with the communist approach or a feminist approach? The communist focus was on industrial democracy. As a feminist, Ms Eastman points out; “But the true feminist, no matter how far to the left she may be in the revolutionary movement, sees the woman's battle as distinct in its objects and different in its methods from the workers' battle for industrial freedom.
It could have been their appearance, the time, or the gender roles. According to the OAH Magazine of History during the witch craze time Puritan New Englanders considered themselves to rather be more enlightened than others when it came to women’s place in society and in their cosmology (Reis). European view on women
Through her translations of Comte’s work, the study of sociology became widespread as more scholars began to look at human behavior and how it affects both groups and society as a whole. As a woman, Martineau was one of the first female sociologists who studied society from the standpoint of social issues that were specific to socioeconomic and class status. It is likely that her gender, observations and theory of “evolutionary naturalism” (Hutchein, 1998) regarding social problems resulted in her being labeled as “a radical:” her work and observations were largely dismissed by patriarchal English society of the time (Vissing, 2011). Martineau’s evolution naturalism theory was based upon her views that evolution was the key to understanding behaviors and changes at all
The 1900s brought about a wave of progressive thinking. With the help of the industrialization period spreading across the nation, progressive thinkers arose mainly from the middle class to challenge social reforms at the national level. Those reform thinkers were successful at setting into motion the movement of progressivism that attacked the social, political, and political inequalities of the age. Influenced by the Social Gospel Movement, progressive thinkers sought to reform the struggle for social justice. It was during this time period that women progressive leaders such as Jane Addams put in motion the need to aid the urban poor.
The official beginning of women's rights movements is marked by the 1848 Seneca Falls women's convention and its resolutions calling for women's rights to legal adult status, access to all professions, and women's suffrage (the right to vote). Of the delegates, renowned black abolitionist Frederick Douglass and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, middle-class, white, feminist foremother, argued most strongly that women needed the right to vote in order to attain their other rights. The ideals of the women's suffrage movement drew on the liberal notion of the rights of the individual. In the 1970s, this same ideal was the foundation of a renewed, but unsuccessful, campaign for an Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the U. S. Constitution. Through the first wave of the women's rights movement, which ended when women gained the right to vote in 1920, through the second wave of the new women's movement, which began in the 1960s, and the contemporary third wave, women's movements in the United States have been linked to the struggles for civil rights for African Americans.
To understand the rise of the women’s movement in the 1960’s and 1970’s, one must look at the cultural ideology of the time, as well as, other influences that might have sparked unrest within the female community. In the essays, “Cold War Ideology and the Rise of Feminism” by Elaine Tyler May and “Women’s Liberation and Sixties Radicalism” by Alice Echols, both historians discuss the women’s movement/protest and how it came to be. While the women’s liberation movement meant equality and the end to sex discrimination to many women, Echols and May offer different explanations on the rise of the women’s movement, and differences on the limitations that women discovered in trying to attain their goals through the movement. These differences in perspective may be observed through the historians’ writing, placing emphasis on how long they talk about each cause of the rise of feminism. To understand the feminist movement and their goals, one must first look at the history and popular culture before the sixties and seventies.
Let Women Vote by Marlene Targ Brill This book is young adult literature is written down to the readers so the understanding of civil right can be more clearly, the book tell some stories of how the women right had been an impact in America society better said the fight for the nineteen amendment. The main focus of this book is to understand the story in how society discriminate women during several eras. The narrator explain the time frame in a different matter, he begin with the story of Carrie Chapman in what she did to fight for the women rights and what she saw, followed the chapters with more important personalities involved in this suffrage. Each chapter covers a different period, but they all share the same organization of describing the social, cultural, political, philosophical and scholarly aspects of the period in respective subsections. This made it easier to later refer to previous chapters and compare different periods in order to learn the comprehensive history of Woman suffrage Amendment into the United States Constitution.