1. Wonder Woman: Feminist Icon

2. “Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice”: Current Movie Version

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4. The Original Wonder Woman

5. I The Feminist Origin Story
Wonder Woman’s origin story is deeply rooted in the early feminist movement
The earliest feminist movement was a natural extension of the American & British Abolitionist Movements of the 1830s & 1840s, which called for:
1. An end of the African slave trade
2. An end to racial discrimination
3. An end of racial segregation

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C. Women became the center of the Abolitionist Movement
D. Despite, a high level of female activism in the Abolitionist Movement, the 1840 World Anti-Slavery
Convention in London, 
1. excluded female delegates from the convention
2. consequently, relegated all female attendees to an outer gallery

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E , the Women’s Movement Begins at Seneca Falls NY
1. Lucretia Mott & Elizabeth Cady Stanton, prominent abolitionists
2. who were excluded from attending the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London
3. staged the first women’s rights conference
Lucretia Mott
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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F. The Declaration of Sentiments 1. There were 12 resolutions 2. The 9th resolution called for suffrage (the right to vote) 3. Other resolutions called for equality in education, property rights, marriage, employment, etc.

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G. The Effects of The Declaration of Sentiments
1. It became the official beginning of the women’s movement
people signed the declaration, 44 more than The Declaration of Independence

11. Seneca Falls Convention

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, Vineland NJ: 172 Black & White women created their own ballots & voted

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, Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for president

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1872, Susan B Anthony & 15 others illegally voted in Rochester, NY

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“The period of woman’s supremacy lasted through many centuries,” Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote in (Lepore page 3)

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A Johann Jakob Bachofen, a Swiss historian proposes that Greek Amazons were real

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B. Bachofen’ s ideas influenced Friedrich Engels’ (Marxist) writings:
“The overthrow of mother-right was the world historical defeat of the female sex. The man took command in the home also; the woman was degraded and reduced to servitude; she became the slave of his lust and a mere instrument for the production of children.”

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B. By the late 1800s, many women’s rights activists strongly believed: 1. Greek Amazon society existed in the Ancient World
2. Fierce female warriors
3. Female dominated society, a matriarchy

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Scythian (Iranian) Female Warrior

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C. By the early 1900s, The Suffrage movement was “obsessed with Amazons”
1. In 1913, Max Eastman (A male suffragist) published “Child of the Amazons and Other Poems.”
2. Inez Haynes Gillmore, published “Angel Island,” a novel about five American men are shipwrecked on a desert island inhabited by beautiful Amazons

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman published “Herland,” a novel that describes women who “live free from men, bearing only daughters, by parthenogenesis (asexual production)

25. Alice Paul

26. Lucy Burns

27. Carrie Chapman Catt

28. Lucy Stone

29. 72 years later the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote

31. Elizabeth Holloway Marsten

32. Olive Bryne

33. Marston Family

34. Wonder Woman’s Current Comic Book Incarnation: Demi God