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  19 th 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