New forms of public life created by women - such as having an education, to fight for their equality of opportunity to get a career, fighting for their rights and changing their role from domesticity to public suffragists- reinforced their place in society. Women had many dramatic changes throughout the years dealing with their view as a woman, politics, labor force and popular culture. In the present, American women continued live in regard to work, family, sexuality, and political changes. A. Sara M. Evans is a distinguished scholar and Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Minnesota where she taught women's history since 1976. She studied women and gender studies as it can be seen by reading her book because of the knowledge she transmits about women’s history and all the stages women went through decades ago.
In addition Black women no longer defined the nature of their work. This shift in work would later stereotype Black women and contribute to the economic oppression of Black females. In the period following the Civil War, the economic prospects for Black women did not change. While paid, the work was of a domestic nature or agricultural. The collective nature of Black communities still predominated as opposed to the white "capitalist market economies of competitive, individual, industrial and monopoly capitalism."
Systemic racism is ubiquitous in the lives of African American women. The story structure consists a beginning, middle, and the resolution/ending. It followed Todorov’s theory perfectly. The stories are very believable because I have experienced workplace discrimination and have spoken with other women about their experiences. The best intent of the story is to educate people of the pervasiveness of racism and how the African American female, who has always been on the bottom of society, has been/is treated by society.
While the population control establishment may have had its agenda, African Americans were willingly involved in the national birth control debate for their own reasons. African-American women were sensitive to the intersection of race, gender, and class issues that affected their drive for equality in early-twentieth-century American society. According to historian Jessie Rodrique, grassroots African Americans were "active and effective participants in the establishment of local [family-planning] clinics ... and despite cooperation with white birth control groups, Blacks maintained a degree of independence" that allowed the development of an African-American analysis of family planning and the role it played in racial progress. African-American women saw themselves not as breeders or matriarchs but as builders and nurturers of a race, a nation. Sojourner Truth's statement, "I feel as if the power of a nation is within me!"
Role Model There was no other American civil rights leader for women’s rights like Susan Browell Anthony. Throughout her life after being a teacher she dedicated herself to help women. “In 1856 Anthony became an agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society, arranging meetings, making speeches, putting up posters, and distributing leaflets” (Susan B. Anthony House, 2009). Then after 1853 she became a women’s right campaigner. Therefore, she had to give many speeches through her campaigns.
An American Author: Zora Neale Hurston Zora Neale Hurston’s brought her culture to main stream America through her writing about her life and her African American culture. As a child she went through many things with her mother dying, her father beating her and treating her terrible, and being passed around her family from house to house. Some way some how she managed to make it through it all. Zora played a major part in the Harlem Renaissance and was an excellent novelist. That is why she has become a wonderful writer of today’s literature.
It took some courageous women lots of hard work and dedication to achieve these feats. One of these important feminists was Betty Friedan. Betty Friedan was the author of The Feminine Mystique. The book was from a housewife's point of view. It dealt with the struggles women faced with their strict role in society.
January 18, 2013 SOC/338 - THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Gender Identity Down through the years we have been told that some powerful women have made a differences and paved the way for us today. The black Women that have paved the way made great contributions to our struggles and survivals. Theses black women probably ask themselves over and over how does a black woman handle the claims of being both woman and black? I don’t believe its no simple answer, each individual is different. Some of our women may choose to see being black first and then female second; or it may be reversed.
The speakers were Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the only nationally known women speakers at the meeting, who gained recognition as “the convention’s moving spirit.” This also resulted in the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments for women, which was a document declaring men and women to be equals. This document was signed by 68 women and 32 men. “It was a powerful symbol and the beginning of a long struggle for legal, professional, educational, and voting rights” (Bowles, 2011). Mott was an American anti-slavery Society advocate and the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society, who, remained true to her sense of justice for African American and women throughout her
African American women are a group that generate opposing views not just from members of their own community, but from outside sources as well. The issues that one individual seems to identify as the most important battle African American women still encounter is not necessarily what another might focus on when describing the struggles this public faces. For example, Charlene Muhammad, an African American wife, mom, and sister, is a National Correspondent for the Final Call newspaper. In her article “Who Defines Black Women”, she defines the public of African American women as “… [d]evoted wives, mothers, educators, doctors, authors … and astronauts”. Muhammad, an African American women herself, wrote the article “Who Defines Black Women” in