Women throughout American history

Women in the colonies

New England

Large families

Religious theocracy

No rights!

Long life expectancy

Dame schools

Chesapeake Very few women

First women come in 1619

Widowarchy

Colonial Fashion: low necked, decorative stomacher, large skirts, petticoats

Women in the Revolution and Early America

Daughters of Liberty

Spinning bees

Boycotts

Republican Motherhood

Abigail Adams “I beg of you, remember the ladies”

Women in Antebellum America

Cult of domesticity

Idea of separate spheres: Idea of the “weaker sex”

Early female education: Oberlin College, Mount Holyoke

Lowell Girls- New England

Second Great Awakening and reform: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Mary Lyon, Angelina and Sarah Grimke

Women’s Christian Temperance Union

Seneca Falls Convention: Declaration of Sentiments

Antebellum Fashion: hoop skirts, corset, bustle

Gilded Age Fashion: bustle, bodices, straighter skirts

Lowell Girls

Oh! isn't it a pity, such a pretty girl as I-- Should be sent to the factory to pine away and die? Oh! I cannot be a slave, I will not be a slave, For I'm so fond of liberty That I cannot be a slave."

Women in the Progressive Era Muckraking: Ida Tarbell

and Standard Oil

Social Gospel

Progressive Reformers: Jane Addams, Florence Kelley, Carrie Nation, Frances Willard, Ida B. Wells

Suffrage is a HUGE issue!!: NWSA: National Women’s Suffrage Association (Carrie Chapman Catt), American Women’s Suffrage Association (Lucy Stone), National Woman’s Party (Alice Paul)

Margaret Sanger and Birth Control

19th Amendment

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776. – Susan B. Anthony

Women in the 1920s

Flappers

The car

Equal Rights Amendment is introduced

Women compete for the first time in the Olympics in 1928

Women work in positions such as telephone operators, nurses and teachers (Numbers of working women raise 50.1%)

Fashion: dark makeup “vamp style”, bobbed hair, shortened skirts

Women in WWII

WAVES

WACS

Women join the workforce!

Fashion: short straight skirts (cloth limited by War Production Board), “ready to wear”

Women in the 1950s Cult of domesticity

Baby boom

Dr. Spock

Introduction of “the pill”

New technology gives women more spare time

Fashion: pencil skirts, sweaters, Bermuda shorts, focus on comfort, nylon and spandex

Women in the 1960 and 1970s“Second Wave Feminism”

Betty Friedan and the Feminine Mystique and the “problem that has no name”

Title VII, Equal Pay Act of 1963, Equal Educational Equity Act, Title IX, Title X, no fault divorce

Roe v Wade, Reed v Reed, Griswold v Connecticut

NOW: National Organization of Women!

Gloria Steinem and Ms. magazine

Fight for the Equal Rights Amendment

Phyllis Schlafly-When feminists talk about "women's rights," they mean a radical restructuring of society, with government using its power to force feminist goals on all the rest of us.

Fashion: “fighting against society”, loose shirts, androgynous clothes, peasant blouses