Feminist Movements?

Question

1. Why were these two movements necessary2. Who were the main people involved in each?3. How did they gather support for the movement?4. What has changed for women as a reulst of these movements?5. Are there aspencts that have not changed womens lives?Could i please ask for any volenteers to fill out these questions about the feminist movements of the mid 20th century?thanks. Im putting it on a quiz for my english students

Answer 1

Do your own homework ;-)

Answer 2

Firstly this is a terrible quiz to give english students. You're not teaching gender studies so don't take the liberty of thinking you a have right to. You have none whatsoever.

As to your questions only 2. is verifiable, and like someone else said the rest is opinion and of those only question 1. is really relevant to anything worth discussing

The first wave was necessary since it gave women equal rights and opportunities (fair treatment)

The second wave is far more controversial. While it may be argued that it raised awareness for female contraception etc. it also based many of its policies on the premise that because there were clearly still inequalities as a result of fair treatment however this meant that something needed to be done to "even out the playing field" as they put it.

This meant manipulating the once equal opportunities men and women shared, so that it benefitted women more and granting more rights to women and denying them to men in the name of "equality". Equality only works if it was achieved by fair means and EVERYONE getting the same opportunity. If not, it isn't much better than communism or equality for the sake of being equal.

Answer 3

1&2) The first wave was necessary to procure legal rights for women, notably the right to vote. Important suffragists include Susan B Anthony, Alice Paul (who proposed the Equal Rights Amendment [http://www.equalrightsamendment.org/]), Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Carrie Chapman Catt.

The second wave was about freeing women from social inequalities-- combatting the notion that a woman's place was in the home. It also brought attention to rape, which had previously been ignored. Betty Friedan is probably one of the more important second-wave feminists.

3. Suffragists wrote letters and handed out leaflets to promote their cause. Many promised to back Woodrow Wilson for a second term to procure their rights. Some argued that because of "separate spheres" (women being in the home) women voters were necessary to provide an alternate perspective, while others were opposed to the concept of separate spheres.

Second-wave feminists had rallies, wrote books, and pushed for more inclusive history classes (so that we'd learn about women as well as men).

4. Women now have the right to vote, and laws protect women from discrimination in the workplace. It's much less socially acceptable to perceive women as flighty or unable to handle tough situations.

5. Women are still paid less than men, and the government is still trying to take away women's access to birth control.

Answer 4

A little worried that your lesson plan is relying on Yahoo!

However, I always feel so much more secure in my principles when contributors say things like...women have only got rights because men gave them to us, but, in their sagacious opinion feminism is superfluous...as we should thank the 'masters' and hope for some more 'equality' crumbs from the table...lol

Feminism - 2 movements! First and Second Waves

For ideas regarding 1st Wave feminism from Wollstencraft to the 20th Century, read Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own

The Second Wave of feminism gained momentum in the States in the 60's, born out of the Civil Rights movement, raised awareness around societal inequalities affecting women's lives.

Broad criticism of these movements is predicated on class and racial bias, perceived as white middle class concerns, but indubitably, had an impact on women's life.E.g. Birth control, reproductive rights, awareness around sexual and domestic abuse crime, moves towards material equality, educational opportunities, employment, awareness around women's historical contribution to culture and society etc...

Basically, to strive towards equality of opportunity and to challenge the notion that one gender should maintain privilege, or subjugate the other.

The third wave of feminism when is it coming? Hopefully, from developing nations and emerging economies where the oppression of women is endemic.

Superfluous? Never!

Answer 5

Because they target men as the enemy. And they hate women who do not agree with them. It has changed women's lives because they are more hostile.

Answer 6

Not a good topic for a quiz.

Answer 7

1. Two movements? To the best of my knowledge, there was only one. But it was necessary because at the time of its conception, women were denied basic human rights (voting, higher education, most jobs, freedom from marital rape, etc.).

2. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul, Margaret Fuller, Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, Lucretia Mott, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Margaret Sanger.

3. Grassroots efforts; they gave speeches, wrote books, etc.

4. In most aspects of life, Western women are on equal footing with men; we are now denied very few legal rights on account of s*x.

5. However, there are still sexist stereotypes today, and women in some locations outside the West are about as oppressed as they can get.

Answer 8

OH MY GOD. YOU ARE DOING A LESSON PLAN ON YAHOO ANSWERS????????

(shakes head in disbelief)

How about you go to a LIBRARY?

Answer 9

Feminist movements are a joke.

Answer 10

1)Which two movements?

Feminism is still necessary!

Look at women in positions of corporate & political power - they still have to buy into the "beauty" and "fashion" racket.

2)Check out the Pankhursts, and their social context. The Industrial revolution has much to answer for. Workers had to exist for the good of the machines, when the machines' true function should have been to serve the workers, take the more heavy and dangerous tasks away from vulnerable humanity and have them done by machinery. The women and children suffered most. Look up factory conditions in the 19th century.

Pre-war Britain was class-led, women could be sold the fashionable image more and more efficiently as media improved.

Then, read "The Female Eunuch" - still a goody!

3) Support was gathered by leafletting, meetings, word of mouth, etc. In the 19th century US it ran in tandem with the anti-liquor movement. In the UK it was concerned with social welfare. A lot was based around childcare for the working mother, and child health problems resulting from malnutrition and urban pollution.

In the mid-20th century, the reaction was against social and sexual injustice. Technology now meant that there was no excuse for women not being able to do any job they chose. The Pill now gave us sexual autonomy, and we demanded the political and social autonomy to match. The men, of course, found this scary, lol!

Much was said about the "sexual revolution" - but a lot of men took it as a licence for free s*x. We've a long way to go!

Thatcher - my own opinion is that she was put into power to discredit the idea of women in power.

4) Lots of improvements, of course. I can now wear trousers, I can go to the pub without being mistaken for a hooker, and drink a pint of ale; if I wished to, I could play rugger, drive a train or a truck.......

5) Yes - during WW2 women took over a lot of traditional "men's jobs", really heavy work in farm, forest and factory. They did this work well and were justly proud of their new status. After the war, the men came home and wanted their jobs back. The male-driven powers that be employed fashion designers like Dior to sell a very girly look - all tight waists, high heels and big full skirts - nice for an evening out, but not very practical to work in. Also the concept of the stay-at-home mummy was promoted by business/media. Women were fettered once more. Puritanism prevailed in the suburbs, an illegitimate child was at a serious disadvantage - thanks be the sexual "revolution" for sorting that!

The fashion industry is still persuading girls as young as 5 to colour their hair, wear makeup, shave their legs and pester for the latest clothes; sickeningly kids are encouraged to look down on those who don't conform!

We've a long way to go.

And - sisters - don't sneer, give thanks!

Answer 11

There was only a need for 'Women's Rights'.   Feminism is superfluous.  It has turned out to be a grab for social and political power.

Note... the ONLY reason that there was a 'Women's Rights" movement in the first place is that men supported it.  Otherwise it'd not have existed.  

I find it ironic that the same men that these feminists hate are the ones who were pivotal in the creation of their 'movement'.

Answer 12

Feminists, like to think they are about equality, but in reality they are about getting even, punishing and power for special interest group.  If you want to see sanctioned discrimination go to nursing school if you're a man you get to experience real discrimination for the duration of schooling and then in the work place.  Funny thing about affirmative action, women still get preferential treatment over men in the nursing field.

Compare "women in engineering" they get special scholarships to get women involved in male dominated fields. They get lowered grade point averages, they get hired with lower test scores and handouts from the day they punch in to the day they retire.  Now look at men in the nursing field..no lowered grades, in fact in this field I've actually seen first hand the old " we have to work twice as hard" to get the same treatment. In every other setting where women and minorities say that, it's just not true.

Women make 70cents on the dollar of what a man makes..ever heard that?  Name me the job and name me the company.  Once again comparing apples to apples, the only field I see where that really applies is in nursing.  I don't make as much as my female counterparts because they get promotions to management positions that aren't even considered for men.   Go to nursing schools and show me men that are the dept chair. Show me the male clinical instructors.  Show me the special scholarships.  

Feminism gave us phrases like " a Woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle"..really ladies, is that what you really want?  I see women all the time lamenting there are no good men with manners like their fathers..well their fathers never went through the feminist movement or were indoctrinated in colleges in the 70's and 80's. Their fathers never were taken to the HR dept and made to take sensativity training for holding a door open for a feminist.

Here's another one from the mid 80's by some feminist professor " On NFL Sunday's more women are beaten than any other day of the week"...it was repeated enough that it became a fact..too bad she admitted to lying, but she did it to "make the country aware of the tribulations of battered women"...sounds to me like a war on men, more than an attempt at justice and equality.

If you are a feminist today..you are a dinosaur.

Answer 13

Some Feminist just left a big movement in my bathroom and she was too proud to flush.

Last time I give her a Fenema

Answer 14

I wanna say ditto to Baba...but - you must be in a different country eh?

Phillipines, maybe?

Look you need to use google and find

--->WOMEN'S MOVEMENT

1) "the first wave" (1848,starting at Seneca Falls,    to 1920 ,ending with the passage of the right to vote for women.    Pay attention, it wasnt JUST about the right to vote.

2--->"the second wave"...starting in the 60's withy Betty Friedans book The feminine Mystique

currently there is a 3rd wave, but it is unfocused, and largely despised.

But the frist two wre vital, and happened because women were treated like they werent human at all.And tht needed to be changed.

Please-for whatever students you have

go to google,

find this information

and read carefully

not quickly

so that you get it.

Answer 15

You teach English?  God help your kids.

Answer 16

Feminists were only successful because they convinced middle-class women that to work, have no children, and seek corporate-world status was the wise choice in life. It was a mistake.

As the feminists of the 70s are soon entering their retirement years, they will spend the last 20yrs of their lives all alone, in gov't run old age homes. They will be broken, crippled, and lonely.

Feminism is a cancer that must be neutralized!

Answer 17

It started in the mid-19th Century by a group of women led by Elizabeth Stanton and they held a meeting in Seneca Falls, NY. Stanton, who weight about 350 pounds, was the daughter of a wealthy upper middle class father.The rest is simply opinions. The second wave was started by French writer Simone Beauvoir who wrote the Feminine Mystic and later on was followed by Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinhem.

Answer 18

Your putting this into your quiz for your English students? And people wonder what is wrong with the educational system.  geezzz.

Answer 19

Which movements?

Answer 20

@Rio: "4. In most aspects of life, Western women are on equal footing with men; we are now denied very few legal rights on account of s*x."

Correction: Western women are now denied NO legal rights on account of s*x.

On the other hand, in the USA, men are required to register for Selective Service, while women are exempt of this legal burden. Please get your facts right.