Monday-
Took rest of part 1 test
- went over next part of test
Tuesday-
Took part 2 of the test
talked about next section
Wednesday-
went over parts of map
Sexism and Feminism
Assigned Blog #1
Choose any women/event/law in history that has greatly impacted women in the US or around the world
Research and write a blog entry n the impact that the women/law/event has had on women
Give a good effect, two pictures, and be sure to add your sources
due next wednesday
Topic needs to be chosen by Friday. First Come first serve
March is National Women's History Month
Thursday-
Went over map
Plane crashes flying from France to Germany
copilot crashes the plane on purpose
copilot locks out the pilot
150 people killed
Women’s history
Emma Watson’s UN speech
During the Revolutionary War women’s brains were smaller than men’s brains.
Women Right in early 1800s \
women couldn’t vote
legal status of a minor
only have own property when single
married property went to husband
couldn’t divorce
couldn’t do any legal work without a male’s permission
Cult of domesticity
developed through the 1800s
The ideal womanhood had four characteristics
Piety
women were the religious person in the family
Purity
female purity was also highly revered
without sexual purity, a women was no women, but rather a lower form of being
Domesticity
women’s place is in the home
women’s role was to be busy at those morally uplifting tasks aimed at maintaining and fulfilling her piety and purity
Submissiveness
this was perhaps the most feminine of virtures
men were suppose to be religious, although not generally
men were suppose to be pre, although one could really not expect it
men never were suppose to be submissiveness
men were to be movers, and doers- the actors in life
women were suppose to do whatever the husband wanted
India still has major issues with gender roles
Rape controversy
The push for Equality
1848 Seneca Falls Declaration Plea for the end of discrimination against women in all spheres of society, including the right to vote
Women In the mid-late 1800's and early 1900's pushed for 4 things
abolition of slavery
temperance
women’s suffrage
child labor laws
Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- important leaders in women’s rights
a straight line or plane that touches a curve or curved surface at a point, but if extended does not cross it at that point.
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