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What is Feminism?

Greenwich Village, New York. patriarchy: A society in which fathers are in charge of the family, men are in charge of wider society, and women and children are second class citizens. radical: Extreme. What is a mass meeting? What was the point of

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Higher Education and the Domestic Sciences

. While the primary courses were the same for men and women, specialized courses for women emphasized the differences between the genders and their post-graduation roles. For most female graduates, the future meant marriage and working on the family farm

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Arguments for and Against Suffrage

unless she attends to the health and welfare, moral as well as physical, of her family, and especially of her children. She, more than anyone else, is held responsible for what they become.SHE is responsible for the cleanliness of her house. SHE is

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Housework and Electricity

-of-the-century technology. Compare the appliances depicted to modern equivalents. DOMESTICITY AND FAMILY; SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND MEDICINE; WORK, LABOR, AND ECONOMY Source Notes Classroom Application. Consumer Culture. Document. Domesticity and Family. High School

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Life Story: Edith Maude Eaton

that she will never truly belong to either culture. In “The Daughter of a Slave,” a young woman escapes poverty in China by agreeing to an arranged marriage in America. But when she arrives, she learns her new husband has deceived her family and that

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Life Story: Clara Lemlich Shavelson

breadwinner for her family. The garment industry in the early 1900s was growing. New inventions led to faster and cheaper production. Americans could now buy “ready made” clothes in stores and catalogs. Although the garment industry was almost exclusively

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Black Suffragists

Home” and Rose O’Neill’s “Together for Home and Family” poster. Pair this document with the photograph taken by anti-suffragists in Tennessee. Why might the women in the photograph (and those they represented) have posed a particular threat to Black

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Life Story: Mary Church Terrell

Black university in Wilberforce, Ohio. She then taught Latin at the prestigious M Street Colored High School in Washington, D.C. While there, she married fellow teacher Robert Terrell. After marriage, Mary left the teaching profession to pursue work

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