Feminine Ideas

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97)

• Women are denied a chance to have a useful life by men
• Give women = rights & will show themselves to be as good as men
• Women behave in childish ways in order to attract men
• Men think that women are naturally inferior

Suffragettes - fight 4 rights to viote in elections (1ST WAVE FEMINISM)

• Took direct action - marches, demonstrations, attacking property
• Were jailed - went on hunger strike, were force fed
• Emily Davidson - throws herself under the king's horse (1913) -> was killed

1918 - married would 30+ got vote

1928 - women 21+ got vote = same as men

Women workers during WWII

• Did men's jobs
• Prove they can work as well
• After war -> some women are forced back into their traditional gender roles -> housewife + mother

The women's liveration movement (2ND WAVE FEMINISM)

• From late 1960s…