FEMINISM AND THE FIGHT FOR

WOMEN’S RIGHTS

Megan Powell

Penn State Hazleton

Cas 100 Section 001

Speech Communications

OUTLINE Video What is Feminism History Why women become feminists Feminist movements Movement History Conclusion Resources Contact Information

FEMINISM IS… http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGpZs95oSl0&feature=fvst

“My Idea of feminism is self-determination, and it’s very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do” -a quote by Ani Defranco

WHAT IS FEMINISM-In article Kathy Henry published in

2007, she defined feminism as the philosophy where women and their contributions are valued. They want equal rights in social, political and economic acts as to men.

Also feminism can be described as a movement where women and even men would wish for equal boundaries in the world for women. (Henry)

HISTORY1792:Philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft, wrote books as a response to two great wealthy men, Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine. These guys wrote a book named “The Rights of Man.” Which focused on a mans right. Mary then wrote a book in response called “A Vindication of the Rights of Men” and also “A Vindication of the Rights of Women” which started feminism.

1848: A lady by the name of Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote “A Declaration of Sentiments” which talked about how rights weren’t given to women which should have been such as voting.

HISTORY (CONT.)

1896: A group of black women, which was led by Mary Church Terrell, started a National Association for Colored Women. This feminist movement became identified as popular.

1942: Rosie the Riveter- popular after World War II, showed that women work just as hard as men do and also effective. (Head)

MORE HISTORY 1966: The National Organization for Women (NOW) was founded and a women named Betty Friedan wrote a book called “ The Feminine Mystique” which was about problems of gender roles, workforce, regulations, government discrimination and other everyday problems. NOW is the first and largest major women’s liberation organization.

1973: Feminism vs. religious rights- controversial right of terminating pregnancies through religious standpoints. Abortion was still made illegal.

(head)

& MORE HISTORY1993: A new generation, feminist Rebecca Walker, which was Southern, African- American, Jewish and bisexual, started the new generation movement which describe young females who worked together to create a better and comprehensive movement.

2004: A second March for Women’s Lives was organized and a total of 1.4 million feminists came together to march for rights and how powerful women are in the world today. (Head)

WHY WOMEN BECOME FEMINISTSWomen would most likely to become

feminists because they would get sick of being treated like they had no say in the society. Women didn’t have same rights that men do and women felt like they should be equal to men. Women knew that they could do anything just as well as a man can do, but society didn’t think that. So women of different ages and races came together to fight for their rights.

FEMINIST MOVEMENTSWhy?- to campaign the reforms on issues such as:

• Domestic violence

• Maternity leave

• Equal pay• Voting rights• Sexual

harassment • Sexual

Violence

(feminist Movement)

MOVEMENT HISTORYMovements went through three waves beginning in the 18th century. 1st wave(18th thru 20th centuries): involve middle or upper class white women; involved suffrage and political equality. 2nd wave (1960’s-1980’s): included combat social and cultural inequalities. 3rd wave: started in 1980 to early 1990’s; campaigned for greater influence in politics. Also a continuation of the 2nd wave movement.

(-feminist movement)

CONCLUSIONFeminism has been around for many

centuries. Many feminists protested throughout the years. Some of the protests included from fighting for women’s rights to showing how powerful women really are. The movements were categorized from 1st wave movements, to 2nd wave movements and finally 3rd wave movements. The final outcome from all the movements shows us how females achieved they could be as strong as a man in the world today.

RESOURCES ThinkExist.com Quotations. “Feminism quotes”. ThinkExist.com Quotations Online 1 Sep. 2010. 8 Oct. 2010

<http://einstein/quotations/feminism/>

Henry, Kathy "What is Feminism?." What is Feminism?. 29 Mar. 2007 EzineArticles.com. 8 Oct. 2010 <http://ezinearticles.com/?What- is- Feminism?&id=507805

Wikipedia contributors. "Feminist movement." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 4 Oct. 2010. Web. 8 Oct. 2010.

Head, Tom “ Feminism in The United States” About.com 2001.11. October. 2010 http://civilliberty.about.com/od/gendersexuality/tp/History-of-Feminism.htm

Library of Congress http://0.tqn.com/d/civilliberty/1/0/w/6/-/-/feminism6.jpg

http://www.thenation.com/sites/default/files/images/media/doc/d64/1212086953-large.jpg

CONTACT INFORMATION map5374@psu.edu