Women's Rights and the Suffrage Movement
Guiding questions:
- What prompted the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention?
- What most surprised your group about Stanton's outline of women's rights (or lack
thereof) in 1848?
- For which key elements
of change did women advocate in the several decades leading up to women's official right to vote in 1920?
Popular Representations of Women in the 1880s-1910s
- With your group explore "Touring Turn-of-the-Century America," Emergence of Advertising in America," and "Library of Congress Online Prints and Photographs
Reading Room" to explore how popular media, including advertising, political cartoons,
and magazines, portrayed women during the 1880s-1910s.
- Use the following items to help generate your small group discussion:
- Your group will prepare a one-page summary based on the group exploration of these sites. Guiding
questions:
- What do you notice (in
terms of dress, activity, expressions, etc.) about the lunching women in "A Hasty Lunch" in comparison
to other women in the background of the photo (e.g., the woman with the man and children)?
- What roles for women are portrayed?
- What commentaries and critiques are depicted in the representations you
have found?
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