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women’s rights leader to begin.
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Susan B. Anthony
1820-1906, Suffragist
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Anthony pushed for
women’s right to vote also
referred to as women’s
suffrage.
Founded the National
Women’s Suffrage
Association in 1869.
Anthony was the first person
arrested, put on trial, and
fined for voting in 1872.
Anthony wrote the Susan B.
Anthony amendment in 1878.
This later became the 19th
amendment.
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Anthony published “The
Revolution” from 1868-1870.
It was a weekly paper about
the women suffrage
movement.
Anthony served as the
president of the National
American Women’s Suffrage
Association until 1900.
Anthony published “The
History of Woman Suffrage”
with Elizabeth Cady Stanton
and Matilda Joslyn Gage.
Susan B. Anthony
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What would you do in Anthony’s position?
Vote
Not Vote
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What would you do in Anthony’s position?
Pay the
fine
Not pay
the fine
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What you do in Anthony’s position?
Fight for
women’s
suffrage
Not fight for
women’s
suffrage
Betty Friedan 19212006, writer,
activist, feminist
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Friedan was dissatisfied with
her life as a housewife.
In 1963, Friedan published
The Feminine Mystique which
depicted the roles of full time
homemakers.
In addition to The Feminine
Mystique, Friedan also wrote
The Second Stage, It Changed
My Life, and The Fountain of
Age.
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Betty Friedan
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Through the publication of
The Feminine Mystique,
Friedan is often seen as
starting the women
movement of the 1960’s and
the 1970’s.
Friedan cofounded the U.S.
National Organization for
Woman and served as its first
president.
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Read the following excerpt from The Feminine
Mystique and answer the questions. Every time
you hear the applause, you have picked the
right answer.
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The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years
in the minds of American women. It was a strange
stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women
suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the
United States. Each suburban wife struggled with it alone.
As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched
slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her
children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay
beside her husband at night—she was afraid to ask even
of herself the silent question—Is this all?“
For over fifteen years there was no word of this
yearning in the millions of words written about women,
for women, in all the columns, books and articles by
experts telling women their role was to seek fulfillment as
wives and mothers.
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What phrase did Friedan claim that many
suburban wives asked themselves?
Is this all?
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What should I do?
How many years did women keep quiet about
their positions in the home?
Over 15 years
Less than five
years
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What role should women be fulfilled by being
in it?
Wives and
mothers
Doctors and
lawyers
Carol Hanisch
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Founding member of New
York Radical Women
Initiated the idea to protest
the Miss America pageant
and disrupted it by hanging a
women’s liberation banner
over the balcony in 1968.
Wrote “What Can Be
Learned: A Critique of the
Miss America Protest”
Carol Hanisch
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Organized southern women
into the Women’s Liberation
Movement
Wrote the essay “The
Personal is Political” which
became a popular phrase of
the movement
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What do you think?
Should Carol Hanisch have protested the
pageant?
Yes
No
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Do you think Carol Hanisch was too radical?
Yes
No
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Do you think the phrase “the personal is
political” is a good phrase for the women’s
rights movement?
Yes
No
Gloria Steinem
(1934-present)
Writer, feminist
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Wrote the column called
“The City Politic” for New
York Magazine
Publishes first feminist piece,
“After Black Power,
Women’s Liberation” in 1968
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Gloria Steinem
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In 1971, Steinem joined the
National Women’s Political
Caucus.
Also in 1971, Steinem
founded Ms. Magazine, the
first magazine to offer a
woman’s viewpoint on
current issues.
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Read the following excerpt from an article from Ms. Magazine in 1972.
In the Harris-Setlow poll, 71 percent of the women questioned
believed that "women are more sensitive to the problems of the poor and
underprivileged than men are." A majority of women believed that "women
attach greater value to human life" and "have more artistic ability and
appreciation of the arts than men do." A majority of both men and women
were convinced that a woman president would be less likely to take the
country into war.
Women also believed that females were more pacifist than males;
cared more about protecting consumer interests; found war less justifiable
under any circumstance; and were generally less hardened to the suffering of
other people. These cultural differences, the women respondents said, would
be evident in decisions made by a woman in office.
Summing up both the 1971 and 1972 polls, Louis Harris agreed.
"Women are voting differently from men," he said. "They are more inclined
now to vote and to become active not only for their own self-interest, but for
the interest of society, the world, and most of all, out of compassion for
humanity."
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This article states that women appreciate the
arts more.
True
False
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Men and women are more convinced that a
woman president would be more likely to take
the country into war.
True
False
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Do women vote differently than men?
Yes
No
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Other Women’s
Rights Leaders
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Simone de Beauvoir, a French
philosopher, is associated
with the women’s movement
because of her idea that men
have made women the
“other” in society.
Eleanor Roosevelt was made
chairwoman of the
President’s Commission on
the Status of Women under
John F. Kennedy.
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Watch the following video about the women’s
rights movement. To hear the video again
press the play button. There may be questions
from the video on the quiz.
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Directions:
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Each question is based on information in this
presentation.
The questions are multiple choice. Choose the
answer you think is correct. You can not move on to
the next question until you click the right answer.
Again listen for the applause.
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Which women’s rights leader wrote The
Feminine Mystique?
Susan B. Anthony
 Carol Hanisch
 Betty Friedan
 Gloria Steinem
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Eleonor Roosevelt was made chairwoman by
________.
John F. Kennedy
 Teddy Roosevelt
 Robert Kennedy
 Barack Obama
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Susan B. Anthony fought for
Women’s right to vote
 Equal pay for women
 Better jobs for women
 Rights for African Americans
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Who founded Ms. Magazine?
Eleanor Roosevelt
 Susan B. Anthony
 Jacqueline Kennedy
 Gloria Steinem
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________ protested the Miss American
Pageant?
Carol Hanisch
 Gloria Steinem
 Michelle Obama
 Eleanor Roosevelt
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