1. Women’s Rights From Woman Suffrage to Feminism

2. Aspects of Women’s Emancipation Property Rights: to own property, work Political Rights: vote, hold office, serve on juries, participate in political activity Reproductive Rights: Birth Control Social & Cultural Rights: to travel, speak in public, dress, attend cultural or educational institutions…

3. Women’s Emancipation Changes in State Laws on the Right to own Property –Married Women’s Property Acts (1850s on); –Married Women’s Earnings Laws (1870s on) Right to Higher Education –Women’s Colleges: “Seven Sisters” equivalent institutions to Ivy League –State University Coeducational Higher Education (1850s - on) Divorce and Custody Laws changed to give women custody of children (late 19th century)

4. Women’s Emancipation, cont. Reproductive rights: –voluntary motherhood (ca. 1880s); –birth control (ca 1920); –planned parenthood (ca 1950s); –reproductive rights (1970s+) Right to Vote: 19th Amendment to Constitution, 1920 Right to Economic Equality in the Workplace: not until the 1960s….

5. Between 1890s and 1960s for the Freed Population and Women: Limited Equality Separate but Equal …(Plessy v. Ferguson) –segregated jobs, schools, public accommodations –“white” primary –“grandfather” clauses, poll taxes Separate Spheres… –Separate education: e.g., home economics –Protective legislation –Separate economic roles which mesh with ‘home responsibilities’

6. Post World War II… A “Second Reconstruction” or Civil Rights Revolution “Second Wave Feminism”