Feminine Ideas

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Created on: 28-09-14 15:02

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97)

* Women are denied a chance to have a useful life by men * give women = rights and will show themselves to be as good as men * men think that women behave in childish ways in order to attract men * men think women are naturally inferior.

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

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

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Women worker's during WWII

* did men's jobs * proved they can work as well * after war, some women were forced back into their traditional gender roles i.e. housewife+mother

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The woman's liberation movement (2ND WAVE FEMINISM)

* From late 1960s + fought for women's liberation in the family, work + wider society * argued women still done have the same = rights as men i.e. equal pay, housework + childcare, domestic violence & reproductive rights

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1918 - married woman 30+ got the vote

1928 - women 21+ got vote, same as men

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

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* did men's jobs * proved they can work as well * after war, some women were forced back into their traditional gender roles i.e. housewife+mother

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Card 5

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1928 - women 21+ got vote, same as men

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