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Ellie Cook AP World History 4 Mod 6

4/25/17, A block Ms. Barnett

AP World History Final Project DBQ

Prompt: Analyze the continuity and change of feminist ideology from the late nineteenth
century to present day.

Document 1:

Source: Newsweek Magazine published a cover tittled Women In Revolt on March 16,
1970. The magazine accounts the recent Womens Liberation Movement.

Document 2:

Source: Quoted in Sarah Shaver Hughes and Brady Hughes, Women in World History
(Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1997), 2:268. Quote made in 1969. (from Strayers Ways of the
World textbook)

We are exploited as sex objects, breeders, domestic servants, and cheap labor. We are
considered inferior beings, whose only purpose is to enhance mens lives. Because we
live so intimately with our oppressors, we have been kept from seeing our personal
suffering as a political condition.

Document 3:
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Source: The slutwalk in So Paulo in mid-2014. Protesting macho culture and violence
against women. The So Paulo demonstration began in 2011. Challenged the idea that women
who were sexual assault victims were at fault for attacks because of how they dressed. (from
Strayers Ways of the World textbook)

Document 4:
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Source: Why I Want the Vote by Maud Arncliffe Sennett, 1910.

http://www.bl.uk/learning/images/makeanimpact/suffragettes/large12617.html

Document 5:
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Source: Right to Work, from the Daily Chronicle, 1908.

http://www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/21cc/struggle/suffrage/sources/source6/righttowork.html
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Over the past couple of centuries feminist movements have made a mark all over the

world. Starting with the Womens Suffrage Movement of the late 18th century to this year's

Womens March, women have been fighting for equal rights within the social, work, and political

spectrums. While over the years, feminist ideology has continued to concern itself with a desire

for self determination and the fight for equal rights between men and women, much has changed

about who is participating in these protest, how women are seen in the workplace, and what

issues people are fighting for within feminist movements. From the nineteenth century to present

day, feminist ideology has moved from securing the vote to more radical issues concerning

reproductive rights and equal pay. Feminism has also changed in the way of who is participating

within the movements. Between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries during the Womens

Suffrage Movement, participants in womens movements were predominantly white and

American or British. Many minorities or people in other counties outside of the U.S. did not

participate in these movements. Specifically women of different races and sexual orientations

were conflicted on whether to join these feminist movements because they felt that their own

problems based on their race or sexual orientations were not being answered. However, while

there are still some conflicts based on these differences, overtime, feminism has begun to rise on

a global scale and has moved to include women of different backgrounds.

Many feminist movements concerned themselves with the role of women in the

workplace. During the Industrial Revolution, women began to work in factories. In these

factories, women were faced with dangerous and unjust working conditions. In addition to

working in factories, women were still expected to manage the home and raise their children. A

combination of these issues caused women to strive for the right to vote in order to have a say in

how regulations in the workplace should be placed. Document 5 is a newspaper article by the
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Daily Chronicle. The speaker, Dr. Macnamara, voices his opinions about how women should

manage the home and raise children rather than go to work. The article was written in 1908 at the

time of the Industrial Revolution and the Womens Suffrage Movement. The speaker argues that

a husband should be able to maintain his wife and seclude her to the household because no one

benefits from women going to work. This documents purpose is to convince men not to support

the Right to Work Bill. The speaker believes that this bill will damage rather than improve then

help increase number of unemployed men. This document is important because it shows the

views of men on the idea of women participating in the workforce. Document one is a magazine

cover published by Newsweek Magazine in 1970 during the Womens Liberation Movement. It

shows a silhouette of a naked women breaking apart the female sex symbol. This magazine issue

focused on the recent break out of the Womens Liberation Movement. It is important to note that

at the time when Newsweek published this magazine issue, the magazine was seen as a very

progressive magazine because they were reporting on movements such as civil rights and the

womens rights. This is significant because the same day this magazine issue was published,

women who worked at the magazine filed a lawsuit based on their discrimination in the

workplace. While Newsweek was reporting on issues facing women out in the world, they were

ignoring the fact that women within their own magazine were discriminated against and denied

certain job positions within Newsweek because of their gender. This document and its context are

significant because it illustrates the difficult path for women to increase their rank within the

workplace. While document five and document one were published roughly sixty decades apart,

both of them show the common struggle and inequalities that women faced inside the workplace.

Document two is a quote by Sarah Shaver Hughes and Brady Hughes. It describes how

women were oppressed in all aspects of life at the disposal of men. It is important to note that
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this quote was made during the Womens Liberation movement. The Womens Liberation

Movement was a feminist movement during the 1960s and 70s that sought to gain reforms

concerning reproductive rights, maternity leave, equal pay, and domestic violence. The speaker

of this document points out that it was difficult for women to realise that the inequalities pushed

against them were political issues because within their daily lives they were always

communicating closely with the ones who put these inequalities among them. The speaker of this

document says that in the past women were not aware of these inequalities, but soon began to

pick up on them and speak out against them. This document is significant because it is pointing

out how women were now becoming aware of the inequalities they faced. This realization was

important in both the Womens Suffrage Movement and the Womens Liberation movement

because women saw that the inequalities within the workplace, social, and political areas were

wrong, which pushed them to fight for equal rights.

Over the past few centuries, feminist movements have expanded to include different

places on a global scale and have expanded their focus from the right to vote onto other issues

such as domestic violence, equal pay, and reproductive rights. Document four relays the views of

Maud Arncliffe Sennett, a participant and speaker during the Suffragette Movement. In this

newspaper article that was written 1910, Sennett explains why she wants the vote citing how

voting is a human right and that it is not fair that women are denied this right despite the fact that

they too work and are still expected to support their households. At the top of this article, it

mentions how Sennett is one of the newspapers most best known supporters. The newspaper also

notes that the contributors of the newspaper also support the right for women to vote. In contrast

to document four, document three shows women in So Paulo, Brazil protesting in the Slutwalk.

The purpose of this march was to protest violence against against women based on how they
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dressed. When comparing document three and document four, it is important to note the time,

place and content of the documents. Document four was published during the Womens Suffrage

Movement and was concerning itself with the right for women to vote. In contrast, document

three occurred three years ago in Brazil, and focused on women protesting against domestic

violence and sexual assault. These two documents are significant because they show how the

fight for equality among women has spread to different parts of the world and has changed its

purpose from the right to vote to other issues like domestic violence and sexual assault.

The fight for civil rights shows many similarities to the history feminist movements. The

Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s fought for equality in housing, work and education,

and the end of segregation laws against African Americans. Today, similar to the Civil Rights

Movement, the Black Lives Matter Movement focuses on reforms based on police brutality and

racism within social and political spectrums. During the Civil Rights Movement, as in feminist

movements of the twentieth century, not everyone was welcome to join the fight. While women

were able to participate in the Civil Rights Movement, women were not seen as being as

important as men during this movement and only a few women were able to speak at the March

on Washington. This shows a similarity to the place of minorities during the early feminist

movements. Also like feminist movement, the Black lives Matter Movement has spread on a

global scale as many people around the world march in solidarity with the movement.

Bibliography:

Povich, Lynn. The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued Their Bosses and
Changed the Workplace. New York: PublicAffairs, 2016. Print.

Strayer, Robert W. Ways of the World Sources for Ap. Place of Publication Not Identified:
Bedford Bks St Martin'S, 2016. Print.
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The Daily Chronicle. "Source 6 - Right to Work." The British Library. The British Library
Board, 11 Oct. 2007. Web. 9 Apr. 2017.
<http://www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/21cc/struggle/suffrage/sources/source6/righttowork.html>

Sennett, Maud Arncliffe. "Source4." THE BRITISH LIBRARY. The British Library Board, n.d.
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Staff, Newsweek. "'Women in Revolt': A Newsweek Cover and Lawsuit Collide." Newsweek.
Newsweek LLC, 02 Nov. 2016. Web. 9 Apr. 2017. <http://www.newsweek.com/women-revolt-
newsweek-cover-and-lawsuit-collide-514891>.