1. Write an analysis of charlotte perkins ideas and themes in this week’s readings. As part of your analysis, discuss what social changes the writer wanted and how did she use writing writing to bring about those changes?
2. Compare and contrast this writer with Elizabeth stantons. You can compare and contrast their themes, ideas, writing style, influences, their politics etc.
The Journal must be a minimum of two (2) double-spaced pages.
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Attention to spelling, formatting, and organization are part of your grade.
Minimum 2 double-spaced pages. Analyze not summaries
Focus on analysis, not summary.
Writers like Charlotte Perkins Gilman were part of the Progressive movement and part of the early Feminist movement. Gilman advocated for autonomy for women and roles beyond those of wife and mother.
In California, she was active in the Women’s Congresses and traveled the country, as well as England, promoting changes in labor laws and the treatment of women. Gilman was one of the founders of the Women’s Peace Party and published her views for nearly seven years in a magazine called the Forerunner.
Gilman’s work included teaching, editing, lecturing, and writing, as well as doing commercial artwork and advocating for social causes. Her writing spanned many genres, from essay to novella to poetry to science fiction.
Among Gilman’s many works are these:
- Concerning Children
- Herland
- His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers
- Human Work
- In This Our World
- Moving the Mountain
- The Home: Its Work and Influence
- The Punishment that Educates
- With Her in Ourland
- Women and Economics
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Suffrage movement to secure voting rights for all, also called Universal Suffrage.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the leading figure of Voting Rights for Women, began her activism as an Abolitionist. Her experience in this movement (and denial of entry to an Abolitionist Conference because she was a woman), led her to extend her civil rights fight to the political condition of women in America. She fought for “universal suffrage” which means everyone would be entitled to vote with no exceptions.
However, the passage of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution only granted rights to males and specifically excluded women. Abolition was achieved but Universal Suffrage failed. Both white and black women had no legal voting rights and the new amendment wrote this directly into the Constitution.
Women’s Rights and the 14th Amendment
Voting Rights for Women began with the Abolition movement and ended with the 19th Amendment to the Constitution spanning over 50 years.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
American Monthly Review of Reviews, December 1902.”>
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