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Notes on video lecture:
1910s/1920s: Modern Women
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on September 2, 2013 (go to class or lectures)
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
pregnant, subordinate, Sanger, saloon, Chinese, Djakarta, urbanization, legal, missionaries, birth, factories, walk, consumerism, bindings, flapper, crushing, traditional, contraception, zenith
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19th century
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traditional roles
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almost all women were in roles
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womens' role may have been just as important as mens' but from a point of view, women were
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lack of rights to vote
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lack of rights to own property
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China
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foot were for women a mandatory custom for upper class women
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from childhood their feet
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they could not like men
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19th century some reaction against it from and Chinese
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political rights
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why in the 19th century and not in the 18th?
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late 19th century: liberal ideas reaching a in Europe and United States by 1860s/1870s
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former slave movement
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many people who were active for getting rights for slaves also were pro-rights for women
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not just a matter of principal but to protect themselves
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why in the 19th century, what's changing?
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big cities, , construction of saloons
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on a farm, a husband didn't have a to go to, now he did, many man wrecking families, women needed to protected themselves
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women wanted to ban or restrict the sale of alcohol
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protect their working conditions from industrial abuse
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origins of modern feminism
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1910s, 1920s
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emancipation
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control
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in addition to political rights, they are talking more and more about emancipation
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from being locked into traditional roles
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they want an independent lifestyle
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the right to control if they get and have children
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Margaret (1879-1966)
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American birth control activist
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nurse
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popularized the term "birth control"
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helped legalize
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1916: opened the first birth control clinic
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was put on trial for talking about the subject of birth control
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equal opportunity
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society has changed, women find themselves in new roles, they are trying to adjust the social expectation of women to match
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American modern girl, i.e.
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modern girls are showing up in other countries as well
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Chinese adapting Western styles in traditional ways
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cities that are bridge points of East and West, where these styles are communicated
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Tokyo
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Shanghai
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Saigon
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women in these places are trying out new life styles, clothing styles, and activism
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modern girls are very much about : perfumes, cars, cigarettes, fashions
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Soviet Union had campaigns in reaction against this new consumerism girl
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Soviet communism promoted itself as being about womens' liberation as well, but not in the sense of liberated Western women who were very much about consumerism: perfumes, cars, cigarettes, fashions. Soviet women were liberated in the sense of being allowed to work in alongside their male comrades.
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